They've cut the Japanese allotment from 100,000 units to 80,000. They've completely stopped promising any more units for Japan until 2007. I would not be shocked to hear that less than 400,000 will be hitting the US as promised. Either way, at this point who cares? Their big system seller, Resistance : Fall of Man, is delayed till mid 2007. They have no big launch titles. There is absolutely no reason to buy one at launch anymore.
I forsee this as Microsoft this Christmas:
My Pictochat name is Food Pimp.I couldn't care less about the PS3. I just bought theac a DS Lite for his birfday last week. He should be pacified till the Wii is released.
Now I see it. MS has Gears of War and the HD-DVD drive add-on. Since they aren't doing a price drop, I see them doing well, but not as well as your gif would imply. There will be only one this Christmas