Indeed, I've said in another thread that PS3 was designed by marketing more than engineering. Marketing is the only group that would be seduced by buzzword city that was offered by BR and cell. Engineering rarely goes on the bleeding edge. They only take the spec and make it possible.

The fact that the PS3 turned out the way it did indicates that marketing dictated the specs. Engineer executed it and made it possible, at a price. Marketing and mgmt felt that it was an acceptable price.

Sony has long ceased to be a engineering driven company, engineering does not control the purse strings that was required

"But when you take a look at industry, every industry: usually technology does't go a step back. the controller is innovative but the wii is in principle a again-used Gamecube. When the innovative controller is the central/main point of the whole system, you should ask yourself if it is on a long-term basis meant." 1. Wii is not weaker than the Gamecube, therefore, it hasn't gone a step back in terms of technology. If anything, Sony took a step back in technology when they fucking took the vibration out of the controllers when they found out too many girls were using them for other purposes. 2. No it is not an again-used Gamecube (that sentence barely made sense anyways). It's different. 3. Yes it will be used as a long-term basis. I don't want to play the exact same games with just better graphics. That's all it has been for 35 years since the Magnavox Odyssey was released.

Funny, Sony said the DS would be short lived too.

What will help the PS3? There is a PSP2 coming so games support will be good. PSP2 -> PS3 ports. The PS3 is a young console. They could introduce something like a Wii-mote. Pointing at PS3 Gloves. So will a consolewith slightly better PS3 graphics and a Wii-mote will do the trick? I think Nintendo will need to come up with something new again.

anyway does it matter? Wii is selling a lot even if they doesn't have the game of the year.

no it's too late for stuff like that, the wiimote is the console's standard controller that it comes with that games are being created for.  We all know that add-ons can never be that effective because you are only getting a fraction of the userbase. 

just look at the 360, companies won't require using the hard drive even though 80-90% of the owners have one.

Also, if the DS never got old, then the Wii wont either.

That's true those gloves will sell like an eye toy. But you can always change your console pack. Let's say Wii2 is coming in 2013. If Sony bundles a SIXAXIS and gloves plus a game for these gloves in 2011. They are well prepared for the Wii2. If you don't bundle those gloves, gamesupport will be weak.