How impressive has Sony been in the past month? Settling the dispute with Immersion makes the SIXAXIS Dual Shock a short-term possibility. Replacing the Emotion chip in PS3s is not only a cost cutting move, but also one which may allow Sony to do some nifty tricks with backwards compatibility functionality. And although Sony is forcing Blu-ray upon us, it sounds like the PS3 will let us take our collection of standard DVDs into the HD generation with some promised upscaling functionality.

Oh Sony, how I do love thee.

Unfortunately for Sony, only 127,000 others did during the short, cold month of February. Or, most likely about 15,000 real consumers and over 100,000 sold to Jack Tretton for $1,200 a pop. Either way it’s a poor showing for the Colossus at a time when it shows its vulnerability, humility, and forgiveness to an increasingly unapologetic marketplace.

But I have faith – once those new Dual Shock-equipped, Emotion-stripped models hit store shelves, along with some much-needed firmware patching, I’ll most likely be in line to get myself a shiny new glorified PS2/upconverting DVD player, formerly known as the PS3. And yes, until Sony gives me an excuse to buy one for the PS3 games, I’m being totally serious.

Oh yeah, and it’s a Blu-ray player too. But that’s what Sony wanted me to say.