I am assuming you are making some weird point trying to claim Sony did a good job this generation and I couldn't disagree more.
The only reason they made the PS3 like they did was so that they could sell more of the console than they did last generation. The cost of manufacturing a PS3 has been astronomical and they have been shedding money on it like crazy. The price originally being 600 dollars? Well its manufacturing cost was something like 1000 dollars. Then the pressure was on them because the Wii made such an economy system that they had to cut the price before the manufacturing costs went down at all. I don't even think the PS3 is profitable even now.
The point overall is that they were trying to capture more user share so they could sell more software on it. The fact that we are coming in on the end of this generations console war with less than half the market share the PS2 had is proof of how horrible of a job Sony did. Sony's been nailed to the cross this year.
Im not saying any of this as a fanboy or anything its fact at this point. Weather they can fix it with the next console generation that's the big question. I was here on this forum when PS3 first came out and the sony fanboys argument was that the console would pick up later in its life cycle and sell 100 000 000 consoles and the Wii would stop dead at 40 000 000 or so. Hell every analyst out there made the argument that sony was going to pick up by now. Only the Wii fanboys claimed that wii would keep going and people thought it was a fanboy opinion.
Even now the 360's manufacturing costs are probably lower than the PS3's unless Sony came up with some miracle cure for there console. Their big issue was the red ring of death and the warranty costs associated with them. Compare the cost of that to a built in blue ray which makes up like 80% of the PS3's price point....
