I am surprised that their are so many PS3 fanboys still in the denial stage. The PS3 isn't going to finish first. Their is nothing wrong with preferring on console over another but their is something with making yourself look foolish by clinging to corporate talking points.

The likelihood of the PS3 having a 10 year lifespan is slim at best. 3rd parties don't support anything beyond the first place console when hardware generation ends. In 3 years the PS3 and 360's third party support is going to start to fade with the launch of the 720/PS4/Wii2. They will be shifting to new hardware and only the Wii with its 100+ million user base will continue to see significant support. Unless Sony's 1st party teams take up the mantle, the PS3 will be lucky to last beyond 2013. Since a hardware's first party teams are typically the first too jump ship to new hardware, I don't see that happening.

Look at the PS2, its the best selling console of all time. I don't see Insomniac and Naughty Dog rolling out new projects for the PS2. They have shifted to the newer more powerful PS3. When the PS4 rolls out, they will make the same transition. The lower market share of the PS3 will cause that transition to occur at a faster pace however.

Did you care to deal with my response mate?

I fail? You gave none of those reasons and only made yourself look like a mad fanboy.  If you would have shown this level of intelligence in your post it wouldn't have ticked me off so much.  I know that what runs the Cell and I understand the layout of the SPEs.  As for being trickier... well that's up for debate since devs have not been able to really get a good grasp on parallel processing (used by modern cpus) and such they can't reach the full potential of either machine.  The PowerPC cpu was developed to replace the mac's then current cpu... the manufacturer escapes my mind... and thus was used almost exclusively on Macs.  The way you say it is that IBM PCs and that isn't right... IBM PCs used X386 processors like everyone else.

As for Lionhead we will see what they do, but they are an external 1st party studio unlike the two recent ones.

The deal with Nvidia was part of the reason, but that is something they could have delt with... the HDD prices hit a bottom and that was not going to go down any more than it did.  That's part of the reason for Sony constantly upgrading their HDD.  I believe that Moore  makes this pretty clear in his interview and Major Nelson has mentioned it on his blog.  Next time you post a bias artical about how "special" your prefered consol is I'll be sure to let you know to keep your intelegence in your original post and not in the follow up when someone calls you out.

you don't think it will win!?!?
Wii is a fad! It's a one hit wonder!
seriously though it'll win,..... because it appeals to more people.
more stupid stupid people ..
jk
or am i? that's why i just bought one.
and nuked it for 45 seconds.

if it will win or not its not that concern me because i have one and still have alot of games that i want to buy and play... if they stop pulling out games today the console will be a time killer for the next years for sure... my generation its more of PC gamers and i am not diferent so i am very happy with my buy (600€ at the time)...

this i agree with.

5 Star Post! * * * * *

Wii is the Revenge (and Return) of the Family Computer, the Famicom...the Second Coming of the NES.

This generation will play out EXACTLY the same as what you described.

John Lucas

agreed, the price point, regardless of whether you believe it or not, is a huge factor. I remember when i was young, that there were consoles i wanted to get, like the jaguar and 3DO despite not knowing any games except for alien vs predator. they were both very expensive though.
Of course, now it is easier for a 400$ console to survive due to popularity of the gaming business and inflation, but still snes ps1,ps2 were only 200$, i dont think people have gotten used to the inflation nowadays and 400$ seems like quite a bit of money still,.. even though it's really not.

"Ah ha! So there is still one believer, good to see you haven't all died out. It's like finding someone who believes in Greek Mythology."


Yeah, well Zeus is about as relevant to the real world as Jesus is (more so probably because his moldy, old bones weren't found in a box in Jerusalem a few years after he failed to show up for his party on 1/1/2000 when he was supposed to appear out of the Eastern sky  at daybreak on a Heavenly Harley Davidson named Silver with all of his angels in tow while the William Tell Overture was blaring forth from Gabriel's horn heralding his return and the impending throwing of all the "bad people" on earth and "the beast" into the bottomless pit), yet millions of people still go to church each Sunday. ;)

By far the most insigthfull post so far. Esp about the support for last gen consoles. See how quick the XBox and GC dried up despite being younger and more "powerfull"? Truly only number one has a chance of a 10 year lifecycle. I mean remember Madden 2006 on N64, killer!

Frankly I think the market just doesn't have room for 3 consoles when two of them are about the same thing graphics, input and functionwise. They are just dividing half the market into half again. Sort of reminds me of my lost love the Saturn, she was hot, she had great 2D and fun exclusives, but she was just too similar to the PS1 and more expensive with little to set her apart. I don't know who this gen's Saturn will be but I think next time we will see far more variety in our consoles. In the old days when making money used to be important they would just pull out, but MS and Sony are far too full of themselves to consider that. Though I would be a pretty pissed shareholder at the moment.