This is all purely speculative (can't help myself, it's fun to come up with theories), but...

I think that it's easier to be ideological and "buy american" when presented with two products of minimal difference in value in your eyes and hence no significant sacrifice is made. This is why I suspect the wii (and most game systems usually) remains unaffected except at the margins. Although, the larger portion of female (who in political polls I've seen over the years statistically tend to be less nationalistic than men in the US) wii ownership may also be a factor.

Hmm, now that I think about it more you're right. By having similar products theres a larger area at the margins between them. Perhaps then, it explains how the whole concept of the 'Fluid Cam' is an attempt to differentiate the products. Microsoft needs to do more than Sony in this case because they come out relatively worse worldwide due to this bias.

The PS3 haters seem to have come in three waves.

First were the people turned off by the PS3's price. Many people simply aren't prepared to pay $599 for a game console, no matter what the developers put into it, and this hurt Sony terribly in the beginning.

The second wave was turned off by Sony's horrible marketing. Even many PS3 fans have to admit that Sony's marketing was made of 100% pure fail, less from the specific statements that gave rise to memes and more from the fact that more than once Sony insulted its own fanbase. When you call your fans "drones" and claim they'd buy your stuff even if you never made any games, that's bound to make some of them angry.

The third wave was turned off by Sony's position in the market. This is largely a product of the previous two waves, and it fed off of them to produce yet more hate. Most of the bandwagon types jumped on here.

Bottom line: Sony brought most of the hate upon itself.

I think the majority of PS3 haters are in the heads of PS fanboys. I've been called a PS hater and I own 2 PS3's. Either way, the actual haters come from fanboys of other systems, simple as that. They hate to see:

a)Their system losing ground/sales to the PS brand items
b)Their system non having exclusives that they would love if it were on "their" system.
c)(The rare occasion) They hate seeing their multiplat game selling better on the PS brand system.

I'm sorry, maybe I misread. Let me check.

PS3 haters are not mostly Americans and your reasoning is fallacious.

When have Crazzy's reasonings being anything but fallacious and facetious.

Above, it was pretty much OBVIOUS, that i was speaking about x360 owners, which MOSTLY are Americans.

You still don`t get it?

Most bashing PS3 articles come from America, from american x360 owners.

That might hold for the US, but it doesn't explain the PS3's failure in Europe, or even why it hasn't been able to take first place in Japan for more than a few weeks.

No those articles come from Sweden, but secretly they are written by the Norwegians. Its understandable you were confused.

Millennium, what failure, selling at 400 euros vs 150-170 euros x360 almost on PAR during ECONOMICAL recession?
Are you insane? What failure???
It`s a MATTER of PRICE, only.

Squilliam, well, it should be known to you, probably, lol. =))