What you said is true but with some bad logic.  If its the ONLY system out for 18months why wouldn't developers make games for it to try to make money its just logical. They started those projects long before wii and ps3 come out.

makes me wonder as to what there targets where?

sony exec " lets aim for third place, thats a good target"

You are right, sort of. Speaking as a director at a multiplatform developer, my company's confidence in the PS3 platform started breaking about 18 months ago when we recieved the first development kits. Since then it has gone mostly down hill. Now we're at the point when, if we tell our publishers that we'll only do improvement X for the 360 SKU, they'll respond with 'well sure, that's the only SKU anyone cares about'. Of course, it depends what X is, but you get the idea.

I don't want to see the gaming industry in the hands of a Microsoft monopoly. If Sony continue sucking we'll see just how that's like. I think Sony fucked up big time with the design of the PS3; it is expensive with no competitive edge with respect to gaming. Maybe with the PS4 they'll get it right, if they can afford to make one. The question is, have they learned anything?

If I made a $600 console I'd put 3 360 GPUs and 1 360 CPU in it. (30Mb EDRAM is just what we need!) More system RAM if there was money left over. With such a system you'd see a huge difference between the 2 boxes.