The difference between the last gen era: PS2 was so up front that it leaves the other in the dust and it is still selling, I myself am contemplating buying a PS2 Slim just in case my Phat PS2 ever break down.

On the current gen: The PS3 stumbled at the starting line with the $600 price tag and one year later starting sales but managed to achieved parity with the 360. The Wii may be in front but the wind is gones from it sails. The PS3 and the 360 can still achieve the 100 million sales target in 3 to 5 years with the appropriate price reductions (to $199- $150). The  Sony consoles always seemed more popular outside North America so it may have an enlengthened life span particulalrly in the third world country.

For the next gen: Both Sony and MS will push off at the same time with Sony at $100 cheaper and slightly higher specs. The XBone 'TV TV TV' approach maybe only relevant in North America but the PS4 success won't kill the Microsoft console like PS2 did the Dreamcast. The jury is still out on the Wii U.

Sadly I think there won't be a PS4. Will the PC someday adopt the PS4 'Supercharged PC architecture'. If so, MS is the winner in the long run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzYFiin06MY

Then you really should see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzYFiin06MY&playnext=1&list=PLF42F6510BC336EC9&index=52 There were better eyetoy lightsabre demo but were taken off Youtube but they were taken off because copyright infringement. (they were using Star Wars soundtrack music). It really galls me that Microsoft keep saying Kinect is something original and never been done before. I guess when you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3UJHItYgc

As someone who owned a Dreamcast and an original X-Box, I'm glad the numbers are close enough that neither, the PS3 or 360 will be killed soon. Both said consoles broke down and I got nowhere to fix them. Which reminds me to buy a slim PS2, just in case Sony discontinued them. My venerable phat PS2 still going strong, but you never know. My 360 kept giving me E36 (or is it E38 ) error message, probably gonna die soon.

I did'nt plan on buying a 360. But my nephew's set suffered from the dreaded RRoD. He had it fix and sold it to to me very cheap with all the games and and promptly bought himself a PS3 (Snap). The fact that I am enjoying my 360 does'nt stop me from wanting a PS3. Only a couple of things is stopping me. The high price and and the lack of games, both of which will be remedied by the end of the year.

These are the two main issues that are stopping the current 100 million plus from buying PS3s. Well, aside from the fact that the PS2 is still going strong and kicking the current gen butt. But someday, two to three years from now, (the PS3 will be around US$300) when they are going to upgrade, they are going to the familiar brand name.

The fact of the matter is in the long run, PS3 will be the better choice. Any deficiencies can be adressed through firmware upgrades. Remember the bragging the Microsoft lemmings did about the their vaunted Ana upscaling chip and how the PS3 could'nt even upscale. Queue one firmware upgrade, problem solved. In fact not a peep from the 360's people anymore.

During the last gen, the Xbox was actually my choice for multiplatform games, at least because of the hard drive as standard. Tracking all that saves in the PS2 memory cards was a pain. In the coming multiplatform releases, where the 360 will struggle to fit everything into a DVD, whereas the PS3 edition, because of Blu-Ray will have gigabytes of extras like developer's diaries, notes, trailers, demos and whatever stuff they want to put in, giving you better values for your money. (Sort of like the extras on the movies DVD's).

I still don't understand what people have against multiple SKU's. All the consumers have to know, is that when they stick a disc into a PS3, it will work as intended. It's not like Microsoft Windows PCs, where there is a chance the games that you just bought it won't run properly without downloading some patches, or it will run too slow because you do'nt have the latest graphic card.

Face it, anything that the 360 can do, the pS3 can do just as as good, if not better. The reverse is not true.

Just package the PS2 with Eyetoy at $99 to attacked the low end market. Put a dent in the Wii hype.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nu_CxbNRQQ

Think what they would do is package the Eyetoy with PS2 at a low price. That could knock some sail out of the Wii hype. Too bad American basically ignorant of the Eyetoy. Just watch the Youtube of some guy playing Table Tennis from Play 2. AS fun as Wii Tennis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nu_CxbNRQQ