Good. Lord. Where to start. Well, it is Valentine's day, so I'll start off by sending some love to Sony - I know I ain't called in a bit, but I do love you. Really. I really do. It's just you've made it so hard to keep the love strong, what with all the poor choices and launch disasters surrounding your new toy (if you can call something that costs $600 a toy)...

Well, to begin, there's the e-mail from EA developer Andrew Garrett, who works on such small titles as Command & Conquer, saying that it would be best for consumers and developers alike to skip the PS3, and go grab a Wii or Xbox 360.

Ouch.

Okay, so let's add some salt to that wound: Bloomberg financial news predicted loses of up to 50% because of the PS3. This is due to speculation that the Wii would outsell the PS3 almost 2-to-1, which is a trend that we've already begun to see on eBay, and other analysts have forecasted for the January sales numbers. We're also seeing sharp drops in Japanese PS3 trade-in values, and even the Grey Lady is getting in on the fun by noting how badly the PS3 is getting Wii-acked around. So, to recap, Sony is losing the new-console-war, badly, on the the sales front, to the Wii certainly, but also to the still-selling-like-hotcakes Xbox 360. Which is about to potentially put a nail in the coffin of the advantage is has in numbers over the PS3, by dropping a black HDMI-enabled 120GB 360 on us later this year...

In fact, Sony is already toying with the notion of price cuts, which would potentially (hopefully) move consoles, but would also increase their already lousy loss margins (that's $300 loss per unit, not profit).

Anyhow, to assert their current market dominance in the 2006-release-date nextgen console race, Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan gave us this priceless quote in an interview with Gamespy:

"Well, we didn't have anyone in line that got shot waiting for our system."

Finally, on the more lighthearted (but still tragic) note, the brilliant comics over at Penny Arcade have made Sony eat their words, those words being courtesy of SCEA President Jack Tretton, saying he would "pay $1,200 for any PS3 found on store shelves..." Well, Jack...

I'll let the comic speak for itself. A must-see!