When you have a $200 higher price of entry than your next closest competitor that turns away customers, high licensing costs to offset the cost of development and Blu-ray drive technology that drives up the cost of the console without a 100% guarantee of wide-spread adoption, you know that you’re in for a bumpy ride.
Things just seem to be getting worse for Sony, and it’s really hard to feel sorry for a company with such arrogant execs. Either way, it looks like the PlayStation may lose it’s steam this time around. Sony tried to take too many leaps, and the competition is learning from their mistakes.