all three systems are hooked up. i guess i'm concerned about a couple of things with using the xbox as the main system.

1. RROD - whether it's been fixed or not, it would still be a pain if it happened.
2. disk scratching - this should be covered when i can download games onto the HDD... though now i'm worried about how much heat the HDD creates.

I have honestly never had any issues with disk scratching. Lay it in the horizontal, and do not move it while it is playing a game. This seems like common sense, but there are some players who do just that. Ask someone who has scratched a disc, and nine times out of ten it will be user error. Not saying that it does not happen, but it is most definitely overblown. House the console in a secure place, and you should be fine.

I have also never noticed the hard drive to have gotten hot even after playing a game off of it for five or six hour stretches. In fact due to the location of the drive it should probably remain cooler then most built in drives. Well over half its surface is not connected to the machine.

I would choose the Wii because of Nintendo IP's

When I eventually get my Xbox 360, my PS3 will still be the main just because i'll never pay for Xbox Live, can't afford it and PSN is practically the same.

PS3 seeing as I make sweet love to it every night it would be really awkward if I started seeing the others console more seriously.

I have a PS3, and more recently an Xbox

My favoured console is the PS3, because of fanboyism, but at the moment, the number of games I am getting for each is about equal, but next year, it will be the PS3 dominating with soooo many good exclusives

Your argument, if it can be called that, is pretty ludicrous, Dodece. On top of the laughable claim that MS uses "the most standard hardware" (which would be a decidedly bad thing anyway if it were true, since that means that their system is the easiest to ignore in favor of more unique hardware), you also conveniently ignore the PSN Marketplace and Virtual Console for PS3 and Wii, respectively.

While I can understand to some extent ignoring the former (the number of PS1 games up there is laughable at best right now, and a not-so-forward-thinking viewpoint would assume this will remain constant), the Virtual Console is quite another matter. Virtual Console more or less assures, assuming its continued survival into the next generation, that Nintendo will maintain the highest level of reasonable backwards compatibility possible. Making up the usual goalpost-rearranging arguments that it somehow "doesn't count" that way doesn't work when you actually look at the matter in reality: those games are available for purchase and play in their original unmodified form on a current (and likely future) system.

360 is my main. Every game has achievements and more people to play with. My PS3 is for Blu-ray and exclusives. My Wii collects dust.

My Wii and 360 is my main console,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Well I only have a Wii but I'm planning on getting a PS3 which I'll mostly use towatch movies and play little big planet!