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PC World votes PS3 a "screwup"... subscribers cancel

Okay, subscribers probably didn't cancel when they read this. Most of them, being PC-fanatics, probably shrugged and agreed. People have made the argument many times on this site how comparing a console to the PC isn't a fair comparison, but that's besides the point. Let's just copy and paste what PC World said about the PS3:

"When it was announced in spring 2005, the Sony PlayStation 3 was going to be the greatest thing to hit home gaming since a hedgehog named Sonic. Then came the delays. By the time the PS3 arrived, it was six months late, and Nintendo's cheaper and more innovative Wii had stolen much of its thunder. At $599 for the 60GB model, the PS3 is twice the price of the original PlayStation 2, yet research firm iSupply--which describes the PS3 as having supercomputer qualities--estimates that Sony still loses more than $200 per unit.

Thanks to manufacturing delays, Sony shipped an estimated 150,000 units for the North American launch, or less than half the number it had originally planned. And the PS3 was incompatible with more than 200 PlayStation and PS2 games, though Sony is addressing that problem through online updates.

The good news? Game-crazed youth are buying up PS3s and reselling them on eBay for double the asking price. And unlike, say, Sony batteries, they don't catch fire--at least, not yet."

Oh, har, har, har. Since Sonic? That was the pinnacle of gaming they chose to compare it to? Sigh. The "big mistake" was trying to turn a supercomputer into a gaming device and the "bigger" mistake was failing to destroy Nintendo when they had the chance. What do you guys think? Is PC World on the money, or are they jumping to conclusions?