I do find it funny that people use every 3 hours as precise "OMG its dropped, its failing" rather as GG says, look at it as a whole.
Slim will do perfectly fine, but Sony are selling slims and Pro's now, so the gap between them and MS is growing at a larger rate than it was before. This is the exact reason why MS announced the scorpio before the pro announcement, because they know the next 12 months is going to be a hard sell for them.