My nintendo DS, and several phones which were supposed to not be washable went in the washing machine aswell, all of them came out with battery still alive, and no moisture inside them. Doesn't mean they are 100% washable just 'cause of that. ;] but Ki is right. The PSP is taking up the graphics competition towards Nintendo. When it come to handheld gaming consoles i would personally stay with nintendo as i'm a big fan of their games (mainly because they made pokemon ;D). NintendoDS will never be beaten, as long as it gets nintendo a reasonable amount of cash. Graphic wise it might tho, depends on how hard nintendo struggles to keep the graphics better than sony. Which i believe they won't be able to unfortunatel(for DS fans).