I read that article in Malstrom's blog and I strongly disagree with his conclusion that the analysts are fanboy frauds.

The way I see it is that people forget that Sony is a large global comany that's indebted to banks, i.e. they owe major international banks money (probably billions). These "analysts" I believe work for companies that either have a relationship with these banks or is owned by them. Remember, Nintendo has little or no debt. These "analysts" are simply paid to back Sony.

OKAY (slowly clicks of the thread with the hope of not being seen)

omg u should start a blog and unravel the world mystery

That theory is pretty complex, and I believe could be called illegal by many international courts.

I don't completely agree with Maelstorm's conclusion either, but I think his is more likely than yours, IMO.

Not the best start to the site I've ever seen...

here you go. 

 Sony has billons in debt. Debt is money owed by borrowing or the selling of bonds. Who does Sony sell bonds to? Remember these bonds have an expiration date and have to be paid off in full plus interest. In order for Sony to pay off their obligations the need to generate revenue and profit. If the PS3 (which is a huge potential revenue generator) fails, Sony's bond holders, banks that provide credit to Sony and Sony itself will be in deep trouble. Analysts are paid to (a) prevent investors from dumping Sony's stock and (b) create an environment where the consumer has "hope" that their investment (PS3) wont go to waste. 

Note that these analysts do not support Microsoft (Little or no debt) and Nintendo (Little or no debt) and release these charts after NPD data shows that the PS3 is in trouble.

I think that would only be true if the PS3 had a chance to bankrupt Sony. Which it doesn't. Or if Sony is at the end of their credit line... which I don't believe it is.

PS3 just hurts it's bottom line for a while.

Which I'd think would be good for banks, since to counteract this Sony will need to take out more loans to do what it wants to do instead of using the profits it's made to reinvest into what it wants to do.

but investors don't invest in the PS3 alone , Sony is diversified in the products it sells.

Lol, gg - I could do better though, lizard men and aliens bro, aliens!

See this is how it goes, but in 1940 Sony was first put together, now the orignal owner of Sony was never mentioned because he didn't exist. The reality was that when Roswell happened it messed up the radio frequency and so they needed a tranciever to do that, but their ships fluxcapacitor must of been damaged because they couldn't make a large enough one, they embarked on a 50 year plan to make their tranciever but realized they needed to make what we called money because they didn't have free access to the mateirals.

Sony created a radio reciever on a smaller level to and they got the tech for another alien from the Al' teniar,twooar sector who then sold them to blue prints and materials, at that time that alien owned a company called AT&T. They made money off this and eventually hit mainstream, teir intent was set on that tranciever though or repairing the quad dimensioal depth conductor. They used the money to develop Cell technology and BluRay then shifted then realized they needed fast concise information flow, so they convinced the world that Binary was in, they embarked on this plan to link the Cells around the world to create the final numerical calibration in the design.

It's so obvious.