i have to agree with magicrevolver microsoft would've have made more money, but as for games and consoles there are advantages and disadvantages. a single game for 60 $+ is a lot thus i would like to pirate games then buy them, since it's way too much, if they kept the price de maybe 40 $ and let down some security on the ps3 to let us pirate games, it would be MUCH better sony would sell a lot more ps3's.
look at it this way.. if we could pirate the system thus letting us put in windows xp maybe or any homebrew games and a lot of apps, the ps3 would be a waaay better console. tons of piraters from the xbox would switch over to ps3 because of all it's pirated features(if it had easy install custom pirate features of course) these features could be as simple as letting us play our music while playing games, god is that a downer for the ps3.
As for the game company's, well there isn't any advantages to them but there isn't a major disadvantages for them since all the pirates already pirate pretty much any game they want (including me) but blocking the online feature equals this out.
a year ago i wouldn't have even complained about all the better games we could be having because all the games out from a year ago sucked and for those that were good, were also on 360. now with a great line-up i just don't want the ps3 to turn like the psp (bad games) but i dought it, since the 360 had a great games even if it was hacked.