update:

I am almost positive now it's coming ...Android OS for The PS3 which is the Google TV.

this is most likely the reason Why:

Android Makes the Move to Power Architecture Technology

By Tom Thompson

Unless you’ve been living on a backwater world far, far, away from the galactic trade routes, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Android. To recap, it is an open-source operating system (OS) developed by Google for the Open Handset Alliance. It is an OS that’s optimized to work within the limited resources of mobile phones, while offering features such as multitasking, with the capability to suspend or awaken tasks as needed. It also supports USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth interfaces for connectivity to peripherals.

However, Freescale thought that Android could provide OS-quality features on all sorts of embedded devices, not just mobile phones. Besides its preemptive multitasking, thread support, and other advanced OS features, Android implements a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be used to display configuration or operating mode choices to a user.  Furthermore, Android provides ready-made application frameworks that enable developers to quickly build an application with the desired features and interface. For example, Android could manage a high-end printer equipped with a touch screen. The OS could not only manage the printer engine and network interface, it would also handle the screen’s display and any interactions for changing print or network settings. Another possible use for Android would be to implement configuration screens on data center network switches and routers.

Android’s threaded nature allows it to leverage the computing power of multicore processors. This makes it an ideal fit for managing the communications capabilities of Freescale’s high-performance multicore processors based on Power Architecture technology, particularly the PowerQUIIC and QorIQ families. Freescale enlisted the aid of Mentor Graphics’ programming expertise to implement the port, since the company had ported Android to the MIPS processor.

To understand the porting process and what Mentor Graphics accomplished, a brief explanation of Android’s layered architecture is required.

http://blogs.freescale.com/2010/05/24/android-makes-the-move-to-power-architecture-technology/

read on further at the Link.

since the PS3 has a power PC processor it's most likely a lock after this new's

an this also could work for the xbox360 and the Wii, but that's another ?

What we do know is Sony is on board.

I love Google. Interesting to see where Android fits into this.

Since Android is touch based, I dont' see how it could benefit the PS3, but it clearly could the next PSP. However, the Chrome browser (or FF) would be soooooooo much better than the PS3 current IE based one.

it's the App's that Indie developer's could make, think Since Android OS now has full support for Flash. that right there help's with Flash support on your PS3.

THAN

Add in the Access to the Android App's store! run those Aplication's right on the PS3.

this being able to turn the PS3 into an Android OS machine is a benefit esp. if it would be free

which the Android OS is open source.

The Wii's interface looks alot like the iphones.  I'm sure with a mouse like cursor(Move) it could be navigated satisfactorily.

Sweet way to got $ony!!

Uuummm...strictly speaking Android is linux (currently it uses linux kernel 2.6), so to say that PS3 ditched linux is not true.

If PS4 uses Android it would still be a linux system.

I agree with rest of what you said, how the two lie in bed together is anyone's guess.

Google will be the big winner here. The bigger Google gets with the embedded devices the less relevant Sony's own PSN becomes as people will not want to use PSN when they can have portability throughout the Google ecosystem.

How So?

just because Google's market place could be an option does not mean everyone will still not want to use PSN.

or are you just thinking there would be no need for PSN, or you would Hope there would be no need for PSN?

lol.

PSN is free so why would you not use it?

It's a Win Win for both any way you know it..:P

you just do not want to admit it..lol

he doesnt mean it that way. though i think they should go with nokia intel maemo moblin = meego . android doesnt have a powerhouse like nokia for mass adoption and being by intel it will be in every netbook.

well nokia alone holds 40% mobile marketshare... those 400 million devices.