Let me explain how badly MS sabotaged the PS3 by backing HD-DVD.....
HD-DVD/Blu-ray war finaly ended January of '08. The war was still raging Christams '07 though, keeping PS3 sales under control in the US because people didn't know if blu-ray was going to win. The PS3 blu-ray victorious sales bump was in January/February and NOT the much bigger Christmas season.
Christmas '08, the first holiday season that Blu-ray was victorious. Also the first year that stand alone blu-ray players were substantialy cheaper then a PS3. PS3 sales fall, in part due to competition with cheaper blu-ray players.
MS held off blu-ray long enough for the players to get cheap, thus blunting the advantage of the PS3 playing blu-rays.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
