Oh, it's just the US mainstream business press being the US mainstream business press. These people wouldn't know a current account deficit if it bit them on the butt. In reality, Sony's hardware division is already feasting on the spoils of HDTV and Blu-Ray, and that's an avalanche which has left the mountaintop. The PS2 keeps trucking along, so that's another cash cow. The only soft spot for PS3 sales was the US, mostly because the triple AAA titles weren't coming until November anyway.
The wildcard in all this is, of course, the US economic slowdown. The mortgage bubble collapsed, folks are losing their homes and not buying home furnishings. Normally, sales of entertainment equipment is very resilient in recessions - people give up other things before giving up their mass media. We'll just have to see what happens...
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