and blue-ray is an advantage not a disadvantage...so yes its great the ps3 has blue-ray so developers don't have to worry about whether or not there games can fit and focus on other important things....lol..FIREBURNER21

Yes it is. It made the PS3 cost $600 and that lead to poor sales which lead to developers not considering it profitable to spend the time and money needed to make quality games. Or if they were already too commited they are delaying their games until it can build a larger userbase. Cause and effect.

I guess it depends on what their definition of major is. The GPU tech is pretty old (2005 tech) and I can't see too many advances being made there after 2008. Advances in programing games for multi-thread CPUs will be made but with other limiting factors I'm not sure how much improvements it will bring to graphics quality. Both for the 360 and PS3.

As for drawing comparisons to this generation, as far as sales go it's nothing like last gen. The DC never outsold the PS2 4:1 and it certainly didn't constantly outsell the PS2 like 360 has outsold the PS3 according to NPD sales data. Soul Calibur was a great game and got good reviews but even low profile 360 games have sold more copies. Mega hits like Gears and Halo 3 sold many times more then the best selling DC game.

Then there is the Wii to take into account, nothing launched at the same time as the PS2 and the Wii is doing better then the Xbox and GC combined. Why do sales matter? Well with high development costs on the PS3 it's going to need to sell a lot of units for it to be profitable for developers to spend time making quality games for it. I would say the PS3s future looks very bleak compared to how the PS2 looked one year after launch.