Maybe after all those years of reading all the 1.3 vs 1.8TF and 900p vs 1080p debates he came to conclusion that processing power and resolution is what people really care a lot about.
I see that many people here still can't get over the fact that after 1X launched the PS consoles lost the power crown ever since, and see it as MS' initiative to fuel console wars, but that's how the console landscape always has been, who has the better, faster hardware - bits, megahertz, megabytes, it always has been about who has the higher numbers on the spec sheet, because A) you can leverage the marketing with it, and B) that what used to drive the devs to make games on you system, because they could make stuff on your console that's not possible elsewhere.