No more than 20,000 additional, then dropping off to slightly above where it is now within a month.
What we're seeing now is the true negative effect of Sony's decision to shoehorn expensive technology into the PS3. Because they can't remove the things driving up the cost of the unit (Cell, Blu-Ray), they're removing features that people actually care about (backwards compatibility). It won't have a lasting or substantial impact upon sales.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
