Nothing will solve Sony's problems because they are based on decisions made earlier in the cycle.
One thing MS did to save money was create the no-harddrive Arcade. Everyone thought it was a stupid idea, but now that the price has hit $200, that machine is selling really well. This is exactly as MS planned from day one: including a hard drive made the price of the original Xbox less flexible than PS2.
If Sony could remove the hard drive they could release a $300 or at least a $350 PS3 without taking any extra losses...but the software all depends on the hard drive.
This is just one of the many examples of things that Sony did wrong and the competition did right...my point is really that Sony made some decisions early on that were stupid. So stupid that Ken Kuturagi was discreetly axed from the company. Unfortunately. even though Sony seems to understand that the PS3 was built on bad decisions, the company doesn't seem to know how to fix that.
Probably plans are in the works for turning things around, but they may already be thinking about PS4 because it's too hard to turn things around for PS3 so late in the game. Any "10-year plan" they had probably involves new hardware.
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