Well Sony thats what happens when you believe the consumer should work overtime to by your media hub! remember sony this is about games yeah not Blu Ray, not streaming media from one room to another, and not folding proteins! Games plain and simple then you can add the rest of your crap on, Xbox 360 got it right, Wii WELL got it right, will you listen sony will you hell like, you will just release another firmware to stream media over your electronic sony watch to your ps3 and psp while making calls on your sony mobile, wheres the fun!

one of the biggest mistake that sony has mad with the ps3 is the fact that in the eu/uk there are no football games as over here football is one of the biggest types of games that sell in japan there are no horse racing games or proper puzzle games all the games that are out for the console are for the us market and they are games that are out for the 360 and the other big problem is the fact that you can get a wii that is a dedicated GAMES console for half the price and get every one in the family to play to gather

Your year-to-date numbers are wrong. The PS3 has sold approximately 400K year-to-date in Japan. It has sold about 500,000 between launch and December 31, '06 and hasn't yet broken the million unit mark for total installed base in Japan.

Chalk this one down as a win for the consumer.
The moment Sony decided to use the PS3 as a trojan horse for blu-ray they sealed their own fate. I for one will upgrade to an HD format if and when i choose, the Playstation brand has always been first and foremost a games machine and using it's vast and loyal user base to push their proprietary HD format is not far short of criminal.
I don't think either Blu-ray or HD DVD will come out clear winners but if the PS3 and Blu-ray were to fail it would be nothing less than they deserve.

Blu-ray is not a Sony proprietary format there are 18 companies on the board of the Blu-ray Disc Association, 58 contributors and 91 other members of the association. How it can be a proprietary format with 167 companies involved is beyond me.

For comparison, the HD-DVD Promotion Group has 132 members.