satyanjoy said:
this survey shows that - hardware does not matter a lot of Sale a Console - only matter GAMES and GAMES and more GAMES (Fun Games-easy to pickup); xbox360 games easy to make(developers point of view) - which is a very very important lesson Sony(read arrogant) should learn - make your SDK friendly to the developers ,involve the developers (not all but some key) during the design & development phase of the console.
I think they learned a bit after changing their Brand image from PLAYSTATION 3 - PS3 - ps3 with slimmer and low priced version.This shows from their all caps version ( shouting arrogantly about how technically superior hardware;sky high price;elite console) towards bit funny(italics font style,short version) and easy going version (priced lower-making it accessible-more games coming in.
I think you are reading too much into their design choices
hyeah:
It's correct that apart from first party developers, all the third party developers have faced a lot of troubles developing for PS3. But similar things have been observed in the entire PS cycle of consoles. PS1 had SNES to compete with, which was much easier to develop. PS2 had dreamcast and Gamecube to compete with [Don't consider Xbox as competition] which again were much easier to develop.
But we knew what happened to all those other consoles. Hell, PS2 still is the number 1 selling console I guess. PS3 was late in it's release, RRODBox has a year's lead on it. But Sony was too arrogant and it reflected badly on their performance so far.
Hopefully, it looks like they have learned a lesson now. Lets hope for more A class titles [Cheaper].