Wow I'm really enjoying this battle between 360 and PS3 with a lttle Nintendo mixed in. This could be the gen that dethrones 16 bit as the ultimate war. Anyone else agree? I haven't been this hyped for multi console gaming in a bit
I think it will be very similar to the 16-bit war, at least from a gameplay perspective.
By the time the 16-bit systems came out, developers were familiar enough with 2D gameplay mechanics that even the crappier games still played decently.
I think a similar situation will happen this gen with 3D gamplay mechanics.
To a lesser extent, one could also argue that these generations represented/will represent the first time their respective dimension could be represented without obvious flaws.