Sorry to resurrect this thread, but recently there was a crazy survey done by Famitsu to see what most people were hyped up about... and PS3 didn't win. I was flabbergasted. Here are the results:
Nintendo revolution: 42.2 %
Sony Playstation 3: 39.8 %
Microsoft Xbox 360: 18.0 %
Playgressive has a translation:
http://playgressive.com/pivot/entry.php?id=162#body