I can't post a link right now but didn't Sony themselves say they'd be ahead of the 360 by mid-2007? (the answer is yes. I'm looking at the quote as I type this.). The analyst in the OP is wrong but that doesn't mean Sony exceeded or met expectation. It isn't some underdog that is pulling off a tremendous upset. Sony is the heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed going head to head with the bum, Rocky Balboa, and barely winning by decision.
People may have called the PS3 "a Dreamcast" on a couple of rare occasions but people were calling Xbox 360 the same thing for over a year until the PS3 launch. Every console was a doomed underdog, this gen.
Wii: an underpowered console with a TV remote and a breast pump. It was going to kill Nintendo. I can give you the 2006 quote, if you want.
Xbox: Underpowered and launched a year early. A Dreamcast. Would be destroyed by Sony.
PS3: Underperforming and no compelling software. Sony should scrap the console and start over.
Every console was doomed and every console managed to achieve tremendous success. That's the true story of the gen.
