Of course it's speculation, but so is trying to lay claim that Sony lost market share due to 360.
I fully understand market share...what I'm saying is that there are several factors to account for when looking at why market share was lost.
Calling Sony losers for doing as well as their competitor while not doing as well as their older product, without fully seeing the big picture is a bit unfair.
If anything, considering the higher cost at release, it being a blu ray player AND it being out a full year less than the 360...and it doing about as well, tells me Sony did pretty well for themselves.
Expecting Sony to do as well as previous gen and not considering the ever changing gaming population tells me some people don't understand some of the reasons why Sony didn't do as well.
The success of the Wii shows us where the majority of console gamers went.
I don't have any argument with any of that. Loss of market share is one issue. Why Sony lost market share is a different issue, and we can all think of possible reasons there.
I'm not making any judgments about it, calling them "losers" or whatnot, so I don't think it's an issue of being unfair, at least for me. I guess you're addressing other people, earlier in the thread. I'm just being descriptive. Sony's market share dropped by a huge margin this generation. That's just an indisputable fact. No judgment, just numbers.
I think the "fall from grace" has been good for them. Not financially, but in terms of humbling them and reorienting them to their main priority, which is offering a product that appeals to the market. They are doing a much better job of that, this time around.