The next generation

When will the next-gen bitchiness end? Yesterday we had Dead or Alive developer Tomonobu Itagaki saying he was convinced that Xbox360 is the "best games console on earth". Of course, this has little to do with his upcoming Dead or Alive 4 on the 360 and more to do with the "complicated architecture" of the PS3. Does anyone outside the dev community actually care though? It's the games that count - if the PS3 version of, say, FIFA 2007 is graphically superior, and has more features, than the 360 version, then gamers are likely to go for that. They won't care that the dev team had to work extra hard on the PS3. Of course, that's why exclusivity deals, where games are tied to a platform for a period of time, are so important. So, will your choice of next-gen console be influenced by what developers say?