I'm not sure what bothers me more, the idea that Sony could ever consider it, or that half the people who posted in this thread seemed to miss the word rumor plastered in the title, first post, and the article itself, and post as though it were confirmed by the President of Sony. Thank god Cid's here to set things straight. Trying something like this with a console this expensive, and given it would be impossible to hide from the public for any length of time would be utterly stupid, and though the people at Sony may be jerks at times, and try to screw over the public on occasion, we'd be the fools to think they didn't realize how suicidal this would be.

Fact is, they denied this rumour last year, and since no mention of it has been made by them but to deny it, I don't see it ever happening. Since launch isn't that far away, odds are developers would already know about it if it were going to happen, and you'd have some consciencious developers spreading the word and shifting all of their support to Microsoft and Nintendo.