In retrospect, Sony definitly should have waited another year for PS3

[MikeB]

@ marc

hat alone would have cut the price about $200 and would have boosted sales considerably

Although I agree a PS2.5 would have boosted system sales initially, the extra Blu-Ray capacity is very useful for the future as games are becoming more complex, needing more storage for higher resolution graphics and better audio. Many PS2 games are already using up the full storage capacity provided by DVDs, is it strange to think that newer PS3 games production will be handicapped using just DVD technology? Both the PS3 and XBox 360 have more than 10 times the amount of RAM available than is available for PS2 software. IMO DVD is sufficient for a system like the Nintendo Wii though, which is technically often referred to as a GameCube 1.5 (combined with an innovative controller).

All they did was make a processor that behaves differently but is equivalent overall to things we already have.

Developers actually using the SPUs greatly disagree. Coming from an Amiga background I disagree as well, there's a lot of untapped performance potential inside those SPUs.