But if you really want to fault this blithering idiot for the worst decision he ever made, it was in dropping Cell Security they’d already paid to develop and then paying a outside software competitor a fortune to develop the destined to be broken….. BluRay Security. They then Fired Ken Kutaragi because the guy was genius enough to come up with a Security Plan that included customer’s benefit as well as Sony’s. A plan so robust that good old Sir Howard Stringnutz ended up showing his real intelligence level as being near moronic as it gets. So lame that he felt threatened by a security system that took away any one entity’s (government or corporate) ultimate power to control it. Under Cell Security…. the ultimate power would have been in the masses of Cell processors as a Full Powered Distributing Computing Network. Where all participating processors must all agree or have an outcome not compute! ….in so doing, Stringer’s power would have been no greater than any other of the Cell processors and no one person or entity could ever take or have full control ever!!!! ….thus we would have had as close to a Heavenly Future as it could have ever gotten in this world.

Instead Sir Howard Stringnutz was forced to retire himself after running the #1 Brand at the time for 5 yrs running into the ground buried in losses it will likely never recover from. All because he did or does not now understand that R&D expenses aren’t recovered ever directly. It’s always in the future that you’ll see returns or losses on your investments! Sir Howie Ignutz failed to understand this basic principle of the Electronics Business he had taken charge of after only having experience in running a broadcast news network…. haha…. the fool fell flat on his face in the Real World of running a Mega Corporation into the ground!!!

Thanks to his blundering in not choosing Cell Security over a software hypervisor running in a redundant system they never activated… even though everything was in place to make all 8 SPU’s active, leaving the Hypervisor as one more hackable, crackable step in security. That’s why Hackers have stated that they didn’t understand why they used a system with a single encrypted key for all devices stored ironically on each device itself when they had the basis for Real Unhackable Security right in the palm of their hand in “Cell Security”!!!

If it’s been out since November of 2006 (in Japan and the USA, I know it was out in June of 2007 in Korea but other than that I have no dates) and this many people in what should really be your target demographic given the voracity of teenage/young adult gamers (hello, first-person shooter addicts, I’m looking at you. I’m guilty too) don’t own the console, why are you projecting a release date for the next generation? That broadcasts to us that the Playstation 3 isn’t going to be up to snuff by the time we can afford the damn thing, and it’s not worth it — your sales are going to plummet and when you announce the ~$800.00 price tag that will surely be on this model, you wont be able to sell that either, because the consumer-base either (a) already owns the PS3 and is therefore broke as hell already or (b) only just scratched up enough to get the Playstation 3, which is now obsolete.

Howard Stringer, slow your roll. :|