Shane

What people on the "They've been saying this forever!" camp need to understand is that there is a tipping point.

The Wii is a suped up Gamecube hardware wise, but has generated massive interest. Obviously, the majority of the market is not interested in the bleeding edge of pixel rendering technology. And aside from either gaming or content creation, what does Joe Schmoe really need these quad cores for?

All Consoles have to do is let you play games, browse the internet, chat, watch video/movies, listen to music, look at pictures, some simple photo editing, email, and word process. This generation of consoles has the raw capability to do all of that, easily.

There will always be room for the PC, but the console is poised to take a huge chunk of that general mass market audience who doesn't encode HD, edit music and video, or feel the need to play the latest and greatest pixel masterpieces or CS at 200 frames a second.