So here’s how it went down. Some time in February, Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey predicted, among other things that did not come true, that Sony would move to release a Blu-ray-less PS3 in order to cut cost. Those of us who have come to own and extensively use PS3′s already knew that Sony would never do anything of the sort.

“That would pretty much destroy the PS3′s backbone, our games were built on Blu-ray,” Kim Nguyen, Sony marketing manager said. “Quote that: Blu-ray will always be part of PS3.”

Case closed.

Unless it wasn’t a PS3.

While it’s highly unlikely that Sony was playing with its words in this fashion, they have always referred to the Playstation Network (PSN) as their fourth platform, in addition to the PS2, PSP, and PS3. What if by platform, they meant console? Would an actual, physical console designed specifically to play the current and future offerings on PSN be such a bad idea?