Power and balance? Yes.

Quality? Uuummmm.

That's not the subject here at all is it?

Yes they were too powerfull, since we only started viewing true HD games in 2009, that would have been the right time for PS360 to release

No they were about right given their longer lifespan and they were not too expensive for it.

That's because Microsoft choose not to test Xbox 360's hardware properly to check for any possible hardware failures. That was likely done to save money as they lost so much money from the original Xbox. It still got lots of support though, it won't all bad. The slim model should of been the launch Xbox 360 though. 

No. It's just "perfectly chosen hardware" isn't exactly the best choice of words.

Since the subject of this thread is "...powerful...", I think it is as clear as day that my comment is directly referring to the technical capabilities of the console.

Every Joe and his mom has heard of RROD. It is therefore (clearly) implicit that this is not what "perfectly chosen hardware" is referring to.

What is perfectly clear is what you are doing with that post.

For us gamers not, of course. The more powerful the better.

For their own good however, they were way too powerful.

They were expensive, they made the generation drag on for far too long and they lost both MS and Sony a lot of money. Not completely into the specifics, but I think Sony burned through all the profits they made off the PS and PS2 with the PS3. Sure they make a profit on it now, but they can't be near recouping all their losses from the first four years. I think MS made their losses back by now, but combined with the original XBox, they still haven't made any real profit off their entire gaming endeavour. Besides that, their longevity could affect the 8th gen. PS360 could still be considered 'good enough' and many could be disappointed by the 8th gen as they expected another unrealistic jump in power after the oversized 6th-7th gen jump.

The PS3/60 HD twins were ironically both underpowered and overpowered at the same time.

They were UNDERPOWERED because they barely had the hardware to push HD graphics. The 360 had the most memory this gen at 512 MB, and even that barely cut it by generation's end.

They were OVERPOWERED because developers weren't ready to transition to HD when they launched.

Really, I expect this conundrum would happen whenever the upgrade occurred. Nintendo had plenty of time to prepare for HD, but it still caused them a major headache. Every time you up display technology between generations, this is probably going to happen.

to me its an era about cpu power that was given by IBM...............
Now in 2013 its a era about the best software libraries with DirectX VS OpenGL/CL/ES