Sony is shooting itself in the foot

As you may know i am little biased towards Sony so it really pains me everytime I hear that they lost another of their great exclusive IPs. It first started with GTA4 and has recently continued with the announcement at E3 that Final Fantasy VIII will be releasing simultaniously on both Microsoft’s and Sony’s platforms. The main reason for the Playstation 2’s success is because of all the great software that is available for it. Without all these exclusives Sony would have never sold over 10 million units. It doesn’t help that Microsoft has an endless budget and is aggressivly going after exclusives. I am considering right now whether to buy an xbox just for Gears 2. I understand that because the PS3 got such a late launch that Sony lost a lot of money, but with sales rising, it is very necessary that they improve upon this in the future.