The press is only going to get much, much harder on Sony in the comming months ...
In the next couple of weeks we should start seeing every major website, magazine and newspaper have articles on what is "Hot" this holiday season. The XBox 360 will probably do reasonably well being that it has the best library of games out of the three consoles right now, the Wii will (obviously) dominate a lot of these articles as the "Must Have" gaming present, and the PS3 will likely be assaulted for being too expensive, removing backwards compatibility and having few compelling games.
In the middle of this, NPD will release the October sales numbers which will have the PS3 being outsold 4 to 1 by the Wii and XBox 360 (and having the PSP, PS2 and Nintendo DS far above it). This will result in another wave of articles in the gaming press which ask whether the PS3 was a mistake.
In December we will get the "Year in Review" articles in both the gaming and mainstream press which will likely have the gaming story of the year as the massive sales of the Wii/DS, the return of Nintendo to power, Halo 3, or the failure of the PS3.
After Christmas the analysis of the holiday shopping season will begin and the PS3 will not have sold particularly well. Third party publishers will be forced to lower their year end sales forcasts and many will blame this on the unexpected success of the Wii and the unexpected failure of the PS3. Even Sony will be forced to admit that they will not meet their sales estimate for the fiscal year. This will result in another wave of articles in the gaming press which ask whether the PS3 was a mistake.
Month after month this will continue, and the constant doom-and-gloom will prevent many people from buying a PS3.
