Ssj: Just look at GC, it had lots of hyped games. And some of them was system STD:s...
Anyway, about the subject.
Usually i look first for errors in the text to define how reliable the analysist is, or how much he (or she) knows about the industry. Now i picked 2 errors: Sonys traditional slow start and "Micro$oft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3".
So, the analysist doesn't know about the industry anything but "that there's Playstation". So (once again) i think that The Source is much more on the right track (although i don't completely agree with him about this).
I think that it might be a close call between M$ and Sony, 360 has advantage in good sales in the US and in poor PS3 sales, which drives japanese developers to develope games for 360 (and bring more variety for its library). 360 disadvantages are poor sales in japan and bad variety of games. Also quality issues about the hardware and Micro$oft not taken the full benefit from its early start are going to shoot M$ in its leg.
PS3:s advantages are BD-drive, variety of its upcoming games (or atleast potential). And disadvantages price, poor sales everywhere, BD-drive, worse library than what 360 has and it starting to orientate only to few genres of games.
So it's hard to say, that which is going to be 3rd, but i see Japan being only reason to save PS3 from last place.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
