This year? Yeap... 600k... or more than 20%.

This sums up my thoughts rather well.

You are aware that in terms of sales over a year 600k is litteraly nothing right.......

the systems are going to sell more than that in a single week during the holidays.  Sony is very very very far from having this year secured in terms of consoles sales.

Anyways as others have said it really all depends.  Financially I think the RROD will be far worse unless ID theft turns into a big issue and Sony starts facing mad lawsuits.

From a image viewpoint though this has already had a severe impact in the states.  I fully expect PS3 sales to drop in America where the brand is weaker.  Its been getting horrible publicity.

what is with you, and your insecurities to the current console sales?

every time people even allude to sales and Sony's current success, you go on defense mode 

Everytime i open my mouth you and 10 other of your other buddies try to gang on me so back off.

you know perfectly well, what you are doing with that comment as well as others.

You are being picked on because you start things you can't finish. 

"PS3 aint exactly leading by mile now is it?" was really not needed though, but you felt you had to say something. But people read and see your intentions, thus you become a target. 

You are not the protector of MS, you don't have to defend everything, learn to take the positive with the negative, your blood pressure wont be moving around so much. 

Most I knew just bought a new console. They believed their warranties had already expired at the time, or simply wanted a new console sooner than later. And shipping it off to Microsoft was unlikely to be a quick resolution. 

As for this, it's unlikely to be that much of an issue. They'll lose a little money for the period afterwards, with around a 5% down, on PSN sales for at least 1-2 months after this is resolved. Insurance will cover pretty much any other financial loss. Even if they WERE found to be negligent... it's unlikely consumers will see all that much success with the lawsuits. It doesn't look like the information lost is going to lead to any financial loss to the individual consumer, so any reporations Sony would need to pay wouldn't be too significant. 

This doesn't compare to a massive hardware failiure, like RROD. With employment, shipping, court cases etc, that type of problem runs up an obsene cost for the company. 

To be fair, a class-action lawsuit isn't something to be sneezed at either.

Not to mention the fact that RROD doesn't equal failrate and a ton more people had their machines broke but not RROD so no warrenty despite the fact that it was still cause of MS putting out garbage