the gibberish was from you copy/pasting from another source. It was html. If you hit edit again then re-post it will parse the html and use it, however in this case it was useless.
Anyways, dell typically sells at a discount, so I doubt this has any bearing on the console prices at all. they had the PS3 at $350 a while back, and there is no PS3 price cut to be heard of.