this is coming from a pro sony guy but here is my take. every single system deserves hate right now.
sony pushed up the price of consoles. u think that people arent afraid all consoles will become that expensive? Pr. sony promised the world and the world is only coming out piece by piece. the online isnt there yet and people expect a lot from sony. sony also had the chance to secure some games and was slow and couldn't secure that they were going make their system great (gta and assassin's creed come to mind).
ms was the first to show a price increase. 400 isnt bad but a price increase is a price increase, especially with the elite coming in with a crap 120 gig hdd for an extra 180. live should not cost money. they charge for pvp code, wtf? ms made an extremely defective product and pretty much wont say wen or if its fixed.
nintendo is way over charging for their system. its old tech and nintendo is making so much money on something that cant do much processing. promoting crap games, nintendo is basically supporting companies who make quick terrible budget games. letting companies who dont improve our industry in is a bad thing. their online is even worse than sony's.
plenty of hate to go around, but its just that ms's mistakes dont really change the industry for the worse. sony and nintendo might do that though.