On a side note, I was thinking that Activision-Blizzard's threat about the PS3 may have less to do with the PS3 as it does with the whole Playstation "Brand" of consoles ... When you add up all of the software sold for the PSP, PS2 and PS3 this year the total represents less than 1/3 of all software sold on home consoles and portables; and when you look at it from Activision-Blizzard's perspective (a company with massive PC revenues) the Playstation "Family" of consoles probably represents less than 20% of all revenue.
Knowing that the decline in software sales for the PS2 can't be slowed down or stopped, and the PSP isn't in a much better position, about the only platform Sony can do anything to improve software sales long term on is the PS3. With how quickly software sales are disapearing from the PS2, about the only way Sony can maintain their "importance" with publishers is by increasing their PS3 software sales at a rate which recovers this revenue for the publishers.
