[Matthias247]

I don't feel Sony should have to worry about it. That amount of consoles would have been 1M$ at the time that happened, and represents a minor amount compared to the total sales that Sony had. It's probably a good marketing/PR budget, and messaging like "the PS3 is so good that even the military uses it instead of other computers" sounds like it could make it more appealing for customers.

The main risk would have been that more companies buy PS3 without buying subsized consoles without buying games. But due to the highly specialized architecture I'm not sure if there was ever a real risk of that happening.