The arguments really are quite flawed!
Sony - "However, I don't think that Sony could have ever forseen the position they are in right now financially. I think its fair to say that Sony was not expecting MS to launch the 360 in 2005. Sony probably expected the price of their components (especially blueray lasers) to come down in time for a late 2007 launch, but were forced to luanch when they did because they knew a two year lead for Xbox would be nearly insurmountable. So by launching a year earlier than they planned, Sony took on huge, huge losses."
They forsaw precisely the financial position they are in now. They knew exactly how much money they were losing per console, they had reasonable forcasts of the number of sales they would get and they would have accounted for possible scenarios such as being forced to drop the price early. Furthermore the PS3 was launched late, not early. They couldn't get enough of the blu ray diodes to release it any sooner. The hardware was all finalized, they just couldn't produce enough of it.
Tease.
