A few points that need to be made. Firstly it is a classic blunder to have implicit faith in this sites estimates. They have been wrong before. The fact that they eventually get rectified down the line doesn't mean you cannot see a couple months of over tracking console sales. So lets give it a couple months to see if the data ends up being modified. Beyond that the software sales have always been the weakest link, and most likely to see massive changes later on.
That all said there are also two types of impact short term, and long term impact. Even if there isn't a sign of a short term impact. That doesn't mean there isn't a long term impact. When it comes to platforms reputation does matter. We will probably have to wait till the holiday season to see if these hacks have done real harm to public perception. That is when the sales that are most at risk will happen.
Speaking to the hacking. Given the duration, high visibility, number of groups involved, and the number of attacks. I have to pose a real question here. Has anything remotely like this ever happened before in the history of hacking. I do not think this matches the more common trends. Hell I am not sure if the pressure cannot stay consistently high, because each group can rotate in for a round, and then rotate back out.
This cannot bring Sony down. That may be a fair statement in a vacuum. This is however more like a battlefield. In which battles are won and lost. More then that Sony is also fighting multiple opponents. The Hackers don't have to deliver a killing blow. All they have to do is keep Sony off balance while someone else does the real damage. You can argue that any adult can beat the crap out of any child, but if that adult is fighting another adult, and the child jumps in starting to grab legs. Well that fight just got a lot harder.
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