I've posted this in the forum about collisions, but I don't remind copying it for the sake of seeing it instead of finding it.
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on an earlier comment about the PS3 system specs, you also have to realise that a console is years of research and investment to get every peice of hardware to work 150% compatible with each other part to bring out the best performance. PCs can't do this for their most important task, being able to do many things. Video game consoles are meant to be pure gaming machines, while the PC is 10 or so uPnP pieces plugged into the motherboard and it'll do what you want to a certain extent. Not to mention the PS3 has the ability to give developers 6 SPE giving it some serious processing power that not even computers have yet. The same goes for the 360 with 3 processor cores doing 2 threads at once each. So while the consoles might not have big numbers like computers do, you have to realise millions of dollars of research making small numbers add up to huge results.
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And some personal notes that I might of said in there, I didn't reread it. When something involves multiplatform games, its best if the games are as close as possible so there aren't any issues over sales and what system is best, so almost always the better system is pulled back by the lesser system. Might be a personal opinion, but the Playstation 3 processor-wise is greater than the 360 with its 7 SPE over the, in essence, 3 dual core processors. Being able to process all that information fast and efficiently, and if the developers had the skill to make a game using every inch of the system, it is possible to do some of the things graphics and performance-wise.
As in example, MAG chose the PS3 over 360 for a huge multiplayer game, even thought the 360 has a larger multiplayer fanbase.
Also, since many games are 360 exclusive, not many companies would have that ps3 experience to use the 6 SPE provided to developers.
Anyways, thats my response to you saying the consoles are out of date and underpowered ,which is an understatement considering their statistics, a PS3 is able to process 25.6 gigaFLOPS per second, which is basically a supercomputer!