360 will be the next dreamcast, released too early, sony will come out and dominate, the price will drop in early 07 and everyone will buy one. I dont much care if they copied Nintendo, at least it will be a controller not a remote...and 100 dollars less is because the PS3's hardware is more advanced and yes they do come with harddrive, the $600 one is 60gb and the $500 one is 20gb. I think your forgetting that without the Playstation Xbox probably wouldnt have come out (or at least not as fast) and technology would still be way behind. Make sure you know what your talking about fully before you go talking about a company like that.I highly doubt the PS3 will dominate. $600 is too much for a console with lesser graphical capability than the 360. Yes thats right, lesser graphical capability. Lets take a look at the system specs shall we?
Xbox 360
CPU codename: Xenon
-Triple core PowerPC processor
-1MB L2 Cache
-3.2GHz
-512MB unified memory
GPU codname: Xenos
-512MB unified memory
-48 unified shader processors
-500MHz
PS3
CPU codename: CELL
-Single core PowerPC processor
-7 SPEs
-512MB L2 cache
-3.2GHz
-256MB local memory
GPU codename: RSX
-256MB local memory
-24 pixel shaders/8 vertex shaders
-550MHz
First off, note that the 360 GPU has 48 unified shaders, while the PS3 GPU has 24 pixel and 8 vertex shaders. Let me explain a little more about unified shaders:
-More efficient than separate vertex/pixel shaders
-Can be programed to be either pixel or vertex shaders
That means that the 360 can run 48 vertex shaders or 48 pixel shaders - or any mix of the two, say 36 pixel shaders and 12 vertex. Much more advanced than the PS3s hardware.
Now in theory, the CELL processor is more powerful than the 360s CPU, with one drawback. The CELL was designed as a server processor, not as a gaming processer. It is simply not optimized for gaming. It is also important to note that the power of the GPU is much more important than the power of the CPU when it comes to gaming.
I think Sony will loose a lot of ground to Nintendo and Microsoft in the comming years.