According to [URL=http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/kaigai/20091224_339258.html]PC Watch[/URL] (via [URL=http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/28/ps4-larrabee-sony-will-reconsider-for-ps5/]Joystiq[/URL]), Sony once considered using Intel's proposed architecture in the eventual successor to the PS3, presumably named the PlayStation 4, but Intel was ultimately unsuccessful.