i would have thought they had a patent ?

What I see is that ever since Microsoft came out with a console that rivaled the US console market hogging up sales, Sony has become paranoid in losing any control in the US market.? Look at the games available now, on the PS2; half are dumbed down puts of XBox games.

Like I said, Sony has become paranoid and thus are striving to create a console that is far Superior than anyother console entering the market. Thus, sony will be creating such a large technical gap between 3 and 2 that devs will be unable to co-operatively produce for both systems. High price range of the system will force many devs to think twice about using the PS3 medium, especially when developers could easily co-operativly produce for both the xbox and 360, for the cheap and high end market. Essentially, if Sony does not strive to create a cheaper version of the PS3, the console might have the chance of collapsing in the market.

It's just my opinion though.

Thats a relief. I generally rely on you guys for most of my information and I was getting worried that only the consoles were going to be talked about.

I didn't know that the event proper hadn't begun as yet.

Snarkpit is my main source of news concerning game related subjects.