Yeah lose money so you can brag very smart .:p

I think they will be the reason why the world will end in 2012. they will have sold the amount of consoles needed to destroy us all at that time!!! stop buying PS3eeeeesss!!!

You have one thing in reverse, The 360 Xeno came before the Cell in the experimental cycle, it's just a Tri-Core PowerPC, it's no different than any multicore CPUs we see today in it's basic design form. The current Cell and Power PC CPUs are on a completely different level in the computing world of course. Cell is really a different design and I can't say it was the best option as a dev friendly gaming only CPU but it's really efficient at pretty much everything if you can code for it correctly, fortunately, we are already there after years of criticism. HD consoels suffer the same problems, not enough memory, and outdated video chipsets, though PS3 is not suffering as badly if you make games exclusively for it in an overall sense.

Actually it's that the currently existing software was opted for 360 architect (part of the reason they stuck with it), as software continues to improve for ps3 so will performance I can see it rivaling the next xbox performance wise 

Because as software improves so does the efficiency, ps3 is already capable of much more then 360 and it still has alot of areas it can improve on, the downside is that only exclusives take advantage of that 

what do you mean being opted for gaming?

the main problem with the PS3 was its architecture which was completely different from the existing computer architecture but had more capabilities at low price and it would be expensive to extract the same performance out of the existing architecture

360 architecture was the same as computers

and Wii was too

No revolution, no.  But those first party games are pretty bitchin' compared to 95% of all other games.

Maybe the ps3 is really the ps4. Think about that. 15 year life span.

I've been wondering the same thing myself, if ps3 is able to compete with the next xbox and nintendo system processing power wise I see no reason for them to release a new console, maybe a ps3 with a faster blu ray drive but thats about it 

Interesting that you say that, cause back at release the 360's GPU was very different from current GPUs with its unified shader architecture, yet the PS3 believe it or not was closer to PC at the time, except with an alien processor (Though the 360 had an alien processor at the time too, though not as alien as what the PS3 had).

or crossfire two ps3's to make a ps6. boom! skipping 2 gens. all kidding aside, after playing the killzone 3 mp demo today i am really begining to think the ps3's power is limitless. I cant belive how great that game looks. probably one of the best looking game out. I really think its on par with metro 2033 pc. just needs that sweet smoke effect in the metro and the foggy goggles.  just give me keyboard and mouse support for all the fps games and i will go back to ps3 being my leading game plat of choice.