Thats the impression I got Phoenix_34, they tried renaming the core unit to the Arcade Pack or something, they tried a price cut and now they're trying this.
Fact is outside of US they aren't doing too well and with the PS3 big hits this year they'll be a lot of people buying PS3 (including me) at some point and they are beginning to look like the pace maker at the front of a race when they slow down and know they're gonna move down the pack.
Not quite sure what that National Survey is meant to prove MikeB - hows about showing us a National Survey of what people actually got.