Retro, I echo GM's sentiments, it's been about SCE's attitude for the last 3 years, and now when it's time to finally put up or shut up, they're coming short and people are calling them on it.
I don't know how long you've been following the 'war' but I always look back to E3 2005 as a watershed moment. Sony came out swinging - Dual HDMI ports for dual 1080p output, built in ethernet and wifi hub (it had 4 ports) 7 bluetooth boomerang controllers etc etc. Then came the smack talk (like the above quote about the 360 being like a PS2) yadda yadda they had a full go. In contrast Microsoft simply said "We'll see when the chips are down". then came the Killzone 2 debacle, and the Motorstorm debacle, then the features started falling off and they missed their adamant launch date of November 05, then again they missed April 06, then came "$600 is too cheap", all the time they've kept up this belligerent façade, While in the mean time the 360 got on with the job. That's not even mentioning the non SCE issues. One of my big anti sony moments from last year was the root kit debacle, that was also handled appallingly.
Not once have they shown a bit of humility or even customer care it's all about "this is what we want you to buy because it makes us money, so buy it **** it!" MS gave us what we want, content and options.
Microsoft did not have it easy either, but when looking at the numbers just remember MS launched in 3 territories at once as opposed to just two, and while the Japanese may not have bought 360's, MS still had to manufacture according to their (overly hopeful) expectations.
Okay I am talking about a different thing 
