Let's see...

"PS3 has 4D graphics"
"Rumble is last gen"
"PS3 will be 100% backwards compatible"

If you ask me the "PS3 will have a 10 year life cycle" will also fall into the many quotes Sony has negated.

Doesn't matter if at the end of it's '10 year lifecycle' it is the global leader it's still a very very hollow 'win' considering the massive lead Sony previously had with it's PS2.

As with the PS2 and PS1 I'm wondering how well the PS3 is built for those all important repurchases due to breakdown!

Of course you can't fathom where Nintendo will take gaming next; that would mean they were being predictable. And quite frankly, no industry ever gets better when it's predictable. As Iwata put it, "we can't ask our customers 'what will surprise you?', because they don't know either." Upgrading online capabilities and storage capacity is a predictable upgrade.

Transitioning from controller-based gameplay to non-controller-based gameplay is not so much so. Finding a way to make games entirely playable without any need to hold something in your hands sounds downright ludicrous to an established gamer, but would certainly accomplish the task of surprising people were it done correctly. That's only one example of where Nintendo could go from here. There's many other routes that nobody outside of Nintendo has thought of yet, too.

I disagree, designing accessibility is as difficult as rocket science. Designing products that anyone can use and feel at ease with is an art and a science. It takes a tremendous amount of thought and talent. It has be designed into the product from the core, not as an afterthought.

i think it will be reasonable to say PS3 will be a close second to the wii this generation unless something major happens.

Wii will probably win, i'll admit that, but PS3 will come close.

PS3 will pass 360...no explanation needed.

And the reason PS3 will come so close to the wii will be it will sell longer than the wii, the wii is hot now, but sales must slow down at some point. And just like the PS2 still sells decently now, the ps3 will sell for another 5 or 6 years strong.

My predictions:

1st - Wii with about 90-95 million

2nd - PS3 with 65-70 million

3rd - 360 with 40-45 million

I don't think anything will reach the 100 million barrier. At the rate its going, which is approximately 1,410,000/month...the wii would reach 100 million in 71 months (5 years 11 months approx). I think by 4 years time sales should start to decrease, and although it will be close to 100 million, it will not reach it.

Then just for fun, it would take 83 months to catch PS2 if it stopped selling now which is just under 7 years of these type of sales. But of course the PS2 is still selling and should reach at least 125,000,000 and the wii will not catch it.

last thing...sorry for such a long post

I highly doubt the PS3 will get the lead this gen but I doubt too the fact that as the market extends to more casual gamers that the renewal rate for consoles will stay as short as it has been in the past.
So he's got some stuff wrong but I think the PS3 will last closer to 10 years than from 5 years...

Maybe it's just me but personally I feel the leaps from one gen to the next have been smaller and smaller and it's going to become harder and harder to convince the buyers to move a new console.
This gen the arguments were HD, Graphics, CPU.

One of those at least won't be there next gen.( HD standards won't change within 3 years)
Graphics are slowly closing to the point where making them better won't improve so much more how immersive game are.
And like many have pointed out on this site, development costs raised with this gen and developers will want more time to amortize all the new engines they have built or are building with this gen of console...

The main weakness I see in the PS3 at this point is the memory, it's going to be tough to last 10 years on 512M.

I can see Microsoft releasing their new console before that time though as I don't see them lasting 10 years on a DVD-Drive.

The question is then is Sony going to try to follow them or will they be still confident at the time in the capacity of their aging PS3 to compete with the new 720...( will it look like a Toyota Camri facing a formula one or like a BMW facing a formula one...)

 There is still more to making a more powerful console than graphics. It could make larger worlds, better ai, and physics. Those are just a few. Not to mention innovations such as the wii and ds that allow for a diiferent way to play.

Those are certainly optimistic predictions from coolestguyever, given the trends each system is experiencing. 360 has already hit its stride; it's unlikely to double its lifetime sales again. The Wii hasn't even met demand, let alone hit its stride; that it could drop off so dramatically in sales so fast as predicted is effectively denying the workings of both supply and demand AND market inertia. And the PS3? Its sales thus far have not yet peaked, but they also haven't pulled ahead nearly far enough to justify such a large prediction as that for end-of-life sales.

A good example of this is the iPod ...

The iPod's user interface is what made it stand out in comparison to its competition, and most companies efforts to produce as accessable of a user interface have failed.