This is the point missed here. Not everyone (i.e. the vast majority) need something that does everything. They want, first and foremost, to play games on these new games consoles. Those things you mention are primarily extraneous features not necessary to gaming. Especially the movie playback. It's nice when you feel that the feature is there and you don't feel lilke you've had to pay for it...which is how it was with the PS2 and its DVD playback. It's icing.
The HDD hasn't proved to be critical for anything outside of storing shit like downloadables and ripped content. Gaming-wise, it will have little impact on the vast majority of games and, IMO, won't mean anything between the two systems where that is concerned. If it's an issue for the X360 core, you simply upgrade and get an HDD for your system. No biggie for the vast majority of games and gamers since I find it hard to believe you'll see many force the issue. Wi-fi? It's nice and somewhat commonplace for geeky people, but it's also not the way the majority of people connect. Not yet, anyway.
Down the road, yeah, the PS3 is a better deal for all that it includes...when the price comes down. For the first couple of years, I don't think so. Even then, standalone players and the compeition's consoles will have come down in price. At some point, most people balk at a level of price which deviates from the others in the same category: gaming consoles. It's awesome for people to want to find all of their desires met in a single package, but not everyone wants (or can) justify the price for it. People make do with what they can after compromise. It's how the mainstream consumer works. There's a reason people buy more cheap brands and less fully-featured items in a given category. There's a reason places like Wal-Mart dominate a nation's purchases and purchasing habits. Price and the reality of having to pay it.
