I have some programming experience. I have done Java and Visual Basic. I believe they say that if you know either Java or C++, it is easy to understand the other.
In fact, I have made a menu-centred game using Java while I was learning it! It's not much but I'm really a game designer at heart and starting a fire in Trinidad in the gaming industry gets my support.
I actually have a dream game, but I'd like to keep the concept to myself in fear of someone stealing my idea. I believe that the console generation after the PS3/Xbox360 would be able to handle my concept. But that's a really big dream-game...not no PSN mini.
I can also draw and I'm very much into details. I'm still a novice with virtual animation since I prefer to draw with my hand on paper (traditional ink-and-paint etc).
So, while I'm interested, I dunno anything about making a game for a console!