the ps3 is based on cell technology. so if you have a broadband connection you can utilize other peripherials that have cell technology. so, in theory say you hook up to the network with the ps3 and there are 4 other people with a ps3. it will use those processors to increase its power. kind of like a super computer. only problem is that the speed will be directly dependant on the amount of ps3's online (or any cell device online) at a time and if they are in use via other cell processes or not. theoretically, this can mean VERY fast speeds, or not. guess alot depends on its architecture. if I have a ps3 and you do and say 1000 other people, how much sharing can occur between these cell processors? if 5 are idle and the others are churning away, how many of the remaining 995 can use the free resources? so, its hard to say. xbox2 uses a similar approach, except it has 3 seperate processors each with its own l1 and l2 cache and a total of 6 hardware piplines (meaning no turn taking, sound, vid, and inputs will not have to wait in turn for instruction use).
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