Sony has been taking criticism from third party developers for quite some time. Those developers are rightly concerned with the way things are going. So they are sharing those concerns in public. Will it hurt sales probably not especially if it gets Sony to change coarse, and that new coarse sells more machines. Only the most observant will be taking note of what is said such as on these forums. The general market will be quite oblivious.
I am sometimes surprised by how people react to these statements. For over six months we have heard blurbs like this from other developers in Japan. Why should they not share their concerns. The performance of this console has a direct impact on their bottom line. Many on these forums say the same thing that the marketing has been quite poor. Thats just a real obvious problem is there a reason to ignore it.







