“I think there was some confusion as to what PS3 was initially – some of the third parties didn’t understand and they wanted to scale back a little and see how things went before they really put in their resources,” Hirai stated.

“But when I re-positioned the PS3 as a video games console at Tokyo Game Show I think everybody got that message loud and clear.”

Skate 2, as we've decided to call it, will hit the two next-gen formats at some point, but - perhaps more excitingly - EA has also revealed that the original Skate will hit the Wii, with balance board functionality.

Also in development for the DS, EA said it is looking forward to bringing Skate to Nintendo's two record-selling formats.

"We knew it would be an exciting challenge to bring the soul and feel of skateboarding to the Wii and Nintendo DS," EA's Scott Blackwood said in a statement.

"With fresh new designs and gameplay components built from scratch, we've been able to, once again, capture the true experience of skateboarding in a completely innovative way."

"On the internet, there's stuff saying ‘Hideo Kojima isn't satisfied with the PS3’. I'd like to talk about that today. I just got back from Paris and did 15 interviews and everyone asked me about it, did I say that. The meaning of what I said has totally been changed, made totally different. Today, I'd like to talk about that," he stated.

"Why did it turn into that? When I'm doing an interview, I answer in Japanese, and I can't control how the writer will interpret that into English," he continued. "What I say is then translated in English, and the writer then changes that into their own words and writes that. So, right there, the meaning of what I say changes a lot."

The interview Kojima is talking about featured in Edge's May issue, in which the Konami man was quoted as stating that the power of the PlayStation 3 wasn't quite as his team had been lead to believe.

"When we first showed the game engine at Tokyo Game Show, the staff were really proud and happy. PS3 was a dream machine, y’know, and we were going to work on this and that – we had so many ideas," Edge claim's Kojima stated.

"But when we actually started developing the game, we realised there were a lot of restrictions and so it turned out how you see it today. The original vision was to go ten steps further, the reality was just one step, which isn’t to say we didn’t progress."

Of course, by denying he ever said the above, Kojima has actually encouraged websites such as this one to reprint said comments. Spot the irony?

Predictions for the official U.S. figures, set to be published by the NPD Group later this week, are coming in, and they paint a mixed picture.

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter has claimed that the PS3 will have outsold the Xbox 360 in April, selling 290,000 units to the 360's 275,000.

However, simExchange believes the opposite will be true, with the 360 winning out with sales of 381,000 units to the PS3's 363,000.

Both parties think the Wii will top both Sony and Microsoft, selling somewhere between 600,000 (Pachter) and 734,000 (simExchange) units.

Speaking during an interview with PlayStation Universe about EA Sports' role on the PS3, Moore stated, quite plainly, "I absolutely love the PlayStation."

How we'd have paid to hear that this time last year.