On the next generation consoles costing more than $350:
Nope. No way, no how. Not happening. Yeah, there's a phone out now that costs $500. How many people buy it? Maybe it's a fast-seller as far as mobile phones go, but I don't think we'll be seeing it go over the 10 million units mark any time soon.
On the Cell architecture:
Anybody remember 70 million polygons?
What we have here is a bunch of numbers that all look very impressive, but like FuFu, I'm not going to draw any conclusions from them. Even with seemingly straightforward numbers such as the floating point operations the chip can perform, there's room for fudging.
Show me a game pushing these beautiful graphics and then we'll be talking. Not only will that show real world performance, it will also prove to us that programmers can actually work with the thing.
Now, I wonder what specs Microsoft plans to show off. I hope they don't attempt more tech demos with manly women and robots, though.
