But Screen Digest have done that themselves, proclaiming that the PS3 will emerge victorious by the time the last page has been reached. Of course, they’ve done what we’ve all done: read the first page, and then thought carefully on how everything should play out. It’s also not the first time this kind of prediction has been made regarding the PS3’s potential future popularity with other reports coming to the same guesstimaclusion -  a guesstimate and conclusion in one! ;-)

While the report is valuable and delves into some good reasons why the PS3 should be ruling the roost come 2010, it is, nevertheless, simply wonderfully researched prognostication – meaning, in short, that no-one really knows how it will all play out, we can only give it our best educated guessing.

After all, we’re really still on page 1 of the next-gen console wars – there are hundreds of pages and dozens of chapters of this epic battle yet to be written, read and played out before we reach the end.

But despite this, nothing can stop human beings from trying to divine the future. After all, sometimes we are right, and we when we are, we like to think we knew what was really going on, and of course I’m injecting my own bit of prognostication here too, although I’m no Nostradamus, just a humble technology journalist.

So, back to 2010 and proclamation of PS3 prowess. To explain their viewpoint, Screen Digest’s Ed Barton said in an interview with Gamasutra, that “One of our core beliefs is that no one buys one of these plastic boxes on technical specs alone, people tend to buy them for content. Our forecasts at the moment are based on the belief that PlayStation 3 has this level of support. The numbers that we're seeing now for the Nintendo Wii, they've come out of the blocks fantastically strongly – no one would deny that – however it's incredibly early in the hardware cycle. There's still another five or six years to play out on this one, and the first big battleground will be Christmas of 2007."

There is no denying that the PS3 is Sony’s great hope to dominate the home entertainment space with a digital box that does it all – even download movies right to the PS3 to watch on your TV, bypassing movie theatres, DVD rental stores and television stations, just as the Microsoft are trying to do with both their Vista Media Center and the Xbox 360, and Apple with iTunes and the Apple TV.

All these grabs for domination seem to presume that there will be ‘one box to rule them all’. But people are used to having multiple boxes in the home. TV’s come with multiple inputs, and may come with more in the future as the world fails to standardize on one single box.

I mean, isn't having multiple boxes under your TV normal for most people today? For more on this, more on the PS3's chances of supremacy in 2010, and a theory on Nintendo releasing a successor to the Wii earlier than we might expect, please read onto the next page!