Well my opinion on this is, that if you look at it sony systems have been out for 8 year intervals before indroducing a new platform, they may be people allready doing concept designs, but the reall thing is the playstation 3 is the ultimate with 8 cores is it not sure but the only thing what's really holding it back is the graphics card, but it will be great to see the battel of the platforms continue, where gonner see more ram more cores and more power, and the price is only going to go higher