I don't think the article is biased as such. Just wrong numbers all over the place.
He talks about a 'global install base' (ie sold thru to the customer) and then says 'while the PlayStation 3 lagged rivals with 10.3 million, up from 1.8 million per year earlier.' While some may debate that Sony has 10M sold to customers now, even most of the Sony fan boys here, would admit that the PS3 didn't have 10M installed with their customers at the end of 2007, much less than 10.3M stated.
And what is with 'per year earlier'? How many 'years' earlier does he think that the PS3 has been selling?
The graph looks like the LTD numbers were selected first, with the first two years data enter and then having a program give a 'best fit' curve. Unfortunately, no one looked at the results, or worse, understood that the downward curves for the Wii and X360 mean negative sales. To save face, if I were them, I'd predict that it means the new Wii2 and X720 comes out in 2011, with a buy-back program of old generation boxes. Thus predicting a 3 million in Wii2 sales, minimum, in 2011. Quite an amazing prediction, since predicting the year of the new boxes AND the sales program that introduces them. (PS3 sales go down in 2012 when the PS4 is released)
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
