Don't forget non-proprietary, upgradeable hard drive. It uses a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive. And the tools to backup, format the new drive, then restore your data are all built-in.

> Don't ever judge a console's power by its first gen games.

Certainly!
I realize that Gundam game is probably a poorly programmed piece of crap. And you can say current Windows games are not taking advantage of hyperthreading or dual cores, much less quad cores ... But! Developers will add more and more detail and complexity. As much as optimization and programming tricks can help, there's only so much they can do. Eventually they'll squeeze out everything they can out of fixed platform consoles.

And seriously the RAM specs alone say devs can hit that ceiling quick:
* 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
* 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz