I would like all 3 systems to be main consoles for their brands for the next 4 years... over 4 years would also be very nice...

Assuming you try to do something nuts like create an entirely new platform that bears no resemblance to the previous generation... wait... that's what they did this gen...

Outlast (in years) as the main Sony offering -- yes.
Outsell (in units) as the main Sony offering -- doubtful because it is still 100M-110M behind.

Mike from Morgantown

They'll probably want to stretch out the life cycle of this console as much as possible. It'll take a while for them to make up all the money they lost

The Cell will ensure this

only 100m more consoles to go. It just doesn't seem likely though.

Soo much hope, but still all hope will be crushed after a month of sales lol lol lol.

This post makes absolutely no technical sense, at all.

AMD are already talking about more than two terraflops of performance for their HD 58xx series chips to be launched in less than a month. I don't feel like doing the maths and showing you how many orders of magnitude the performance will likely to be in four years from now greater than the RSX and XENOS chips combined and thats within an expected 50-75W thermal allowance.

All three systems have yet to hit their peaks, we'll see games that make the first generation titles look stale and primative. I say, "why the rush?"

Sony says, "The next generation doesn't start until we say it does." Well, we saw how that worked out for them with PS3, didn't we? If MS and Ninty release a new system, Sony will scramble to keep up. I don't see that happening, though, for 2 years or so.

The market and competition will dictate the next generation.

IF they use Cell or Blu-Ray in the next console, that WILL still be recouping, then profiting off of, the money they spent initially.

Blu-Ray sales -- players and disc -- are also contributing to this.