You see appearance really depends on the monitor you're using as well on my HDTv the latest Prince of Persia looks only a bit better on 360... Also you misunderstand me when I say "he demoed" it to me, I mean he took one out of the box and plugged it into a television and let me play for an hour to help me make a decision about buying one, thereby "demonstrating" one to me, I've seen all the current top rated 360 games available internationally and none of them is all that tight... I mean they fine and all but nothing blew me away...PS2 games continue to do this to me.
As far as release for the PS3, its been pushed back to Feb/ March 2007, but I'm not gonna buy one till the second print series, so they have a chance to work out the bugs... I'll probably get a Revolution first, cos they'll be releasing it with the biggest game catalogue available and you can rely on Nintendo for FUN games.