If that was truely his guiding principle the PS3 would not cost more than 50% (Min) of gamers can afford. It's also pretty much an exact copy of Nintendo's goal. Something tells me this principle is relatively new...say it began about when the 4 millianth Wii sold...

Or you know, after they sold more than 100 million PS1s and 100 million PS2s, the most successful gaming systems of all time, hence reaching a larger audience than anybody else had before or since.

I'll certainly agree with you that the PS3 isn't aimed at that market right now, and because of decisions like the required hard drive it might never reach the right price level, but Sony's gaming history demonstrates that they aimed to make gaming more inclusive than anybody else has - including Nintendo.

Just wanted to wish you the best with your treatment. I myself have exhausted standard treatment options for my cancer, and so have been researching any new treatment that comes along with hopes something might help.

You are right one when you state that many people don't realize that cancer isn't one disease. So many people shout "We need a cure for cancer!" Of course, this makes no sense since there are hundreds of types of cancer out there, each of which would need a cure.

Like you said, the popular cancers get the research, and as such new treatments will keep showing up every year for them; this trojan thing, though it will take years to actually be practically helpful if it works, could prove a bit more universal in terms of the number of cancers it could help, it seems. That would be a huge victory to those of us with rare cancers.

Two years is a long time to wait for a start of trials, but if I'm still around and still fighting this, I could see myself volunteering for that (if it is like the other phase I trials I've been on for "advanced cancer" rather than a specific type.) Even if it didn't work, the potential to help future cancer patients seems too great to pass up, I think. I'll be keeping an eye out for more on this.

Take care.

Fuck.