Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' latest article - Waiting on a Revolution: a look ahead at the next-generation console wars - makes for interesting reading:

..."We at Ars Technica have been covering "convergence" devices since the site's inception, and I in particular have focused on home networked devices and game consoles. As a kind of follow-up to my previous round of technical articles on the hardware that powers the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, I decided to step back a bit from the technical details and take a broader look at how the next generation of consoles fit into the home entertainment picture"...