Big fan of the Sims, including the Sims 3 (I don't really understand the hate thrown toward it from fans of the Sims franchise, but the thing about the Sims is it's a different game for everyone who plays it; one person's bug is another person's feature).
Never have played the console Sims games, but this looks like it will be a fuller version than the older console spinoffs. Probably no version will be able to do as much as the PC version (if nothing else, user made mods make that endlessly variable), but looks pretty ambitious.
The 360 and PS3 versions are being designed with online functionality in mind
Allow me to translate that for you: "The 360 and PS3 versions will have their own version of the Sims 3 store with its ridiculously overpriced items, and we probably won't give them free purchasing points either like we do to registered PC players."
Hey, I like the Sims 3, but that doesn't blind me to EA's typical marketing games.