Console tech-specs aside, what is cash-strap Sony compared to cash-rich-abudance Microsoft? Microsoft throws it weights on Xbox 360, buy game developers if they have too, make it cheap,loose money, no problem. Road shows and all. MS way, build an eco-system for other MS product to work with its console business - MSN Live,Vista,Windows Media Viewer etc.

Sony starts to copycat MS way, then the Japs might very soon see Sony sold the highest bidder, from a sushi eating staff to dimsum...some Chinese conglomerate like British car maker MG.