@Aprisaiden and others:
2 PPE general purpose cores would be well exploited even now, in a few years 4 PPE cores could be a more far-sighted project.
And at least 4GB main RAM to avoid the current situation where all other would be OK, but PS3 is prevented from becoming a new widespread home PC by too little unexpandable RAM (other than only one PPE gp core, right now every modern OS does very well with a dual-core).
About PS2 BC, a full one should be very cheap by the date PS4 will be released.







