Android wrote:
The relative power of a video game system has *never* been the determining
factor for sales during the past 30 years of gaming.

You're right it hasn't, but I can't recall when a console has been
boasted as such a superior pixel pusher as the PS3. The PS3 marketing
strategy has been based around its supposed greatly superior processing
power and if word starts to get around that it isn't as powerful as the
hype Sony was trying to sell, then the whole imagine of the console and
Sony will suffer. In fact it's already starting to happen as reputable
news sources give it negative reviews because it hasn't lived up to
expectations.