SONY have chosen profit over gamers?
Excuse me, but who still has region encoding for games? Who charges for online?
Microsoft.
Sony makes you pay for a console and gives you free gifts. Microsoft makes you pay for a console and then pay for every extra imaginable.
Having said that, Sony 'deserves' exactly what any of the other companies 'deserve'- nothing. Success is not their birthright, it is something they must earn. But I think they're doing a good job of it.