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Katilian on 12 October 2007
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Ok, let's pick it apart qucikly:

1. Developers are Still Learning the System - This happens with every system. The big games at the end of its lifetime are always more impressive than the launch titles.

2. The Blu-ray Life Cycle - I fail to see how what media they have used in a console dictates how long the console is going to last in the market. Sure, if all you use it for is a blu-ray player then maybe.

3. The PS3 is Highly Adaptable - console allows for large amounts of peripherals, ok, is a reasonable argument assuming that consumers are going to want to be upgrading their console, but the CPU and GPU aren't upgradeable, and those are the two components that are going to age the quickest and need replacing.

4. The PlayStation Network Can be Fixed - Haven't used it so I won't comment, but this is completely independent of the console anyway (ie, PS4 could use it without issue).

5. The PS3 is Prepared for HD Revolution - There isn't going to be a HD Revolution. HD will enter the market gradually as people replace their old tvs with new ones. Anyway, this is the same argument as the futureproof one.

6. Expect a Slim-line SKU - So the same hardware in a different case makes said hardware more futureproof?

7. Sony is Popular in All Territories - Past success doesn't not guarentee future success. Remember how Nintendo dominated with the NES and SNES? Surely that meant the N64 and GC were smash hits right?

8. Sony Rules the Mainstream - the PS2 might rule mainstream, but see point 7. The Wii has captured that market this generation.

9. The PS3 is Future-proof - The comments written below this point don't really have much to do with it. Firstly he bags out the 360 adding HDMI then goes on about how the PS3 will have extra functionality that the 360 can't do. Well if the ps3 is getting extra functionality, then it has to be done in software, so why can't the 360 do it as well? He then tried to suggest that expanding the market also makes it futureproof (I suppose, if the Indians and Chinese like old hardware by then).

10. The Ten-Year Plan - This doesn't argue why, it only justifies what Sony has done before, and assuming the previous points are true, assumes that Sony would do the same.