The head of all things PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi, has made some more than interesting comments regarding how SCE views the launch of the Cell-powered PlayStation 3 console, underlining again that the deployment of the machine heralds much more than the release of a new games console.

Speaking in an interview with Electronic Engineering Times Asia, Kutaragi-san said of the PlayStation 3, “Though sold as a game console, what will in fact enter the home is a Cell-based computer.”

He continued, “The model image for the Cell-based network may be the Internet: servers around the world form one virtual 'computer,' and each PC accesses it. Application programs can no longer directly access the hardware; instead they will have to be written in high-level, object-oriented language. The Cell processor will completely change the concept of programming. I am sure that a technology revolution is about to occur, not only within Sony but throughout the digital consumer electronics industry.”

Crikey. It’s like living in the future, only it’s happening right now. SPOnG must admit, however, that the idea of our office fridge containing a chip that somehow powers the polygons in a game of Gran Turismo 5 somewhere in Osaka is highly appealing.

More oddball processor claims as we get them. And as ever, let us know what you think in the forum below.