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vanguardian1 said: and Europe is, from what I've heard, way behind North America for HD penetration.

It is, but where do you find an SD Display now? In Europe this gets more and more difficult. Nowe even smaller Displays are all based on LCDs. The normal tube is pretty much extinct. And I don't think that the Wii will totally overwhelme the Xbox 360 and PS-3 due to easy cross plattform development for 3 plattforms: the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PS-3. Especially Microsoft will take care that the cross pülattform support for the PC and the Xbox 360 will be easy, to get better support for Live... While I am sure that in the short run the Wiii will dominate due to this fact the Xbox 360 and the PS-3 will hnot be dropped by 3rd party developers. It will not dominate so totally that it would make the other markets negligable.The basic hardware of the Wii is in a much later development stage. In fact I find it bad that the Wii isn't generally available. It would be really interesting to see how the Wii sells compared to the 300 Euro Xbox 360s. Will the 50 Euro difference still be big enough fore the Wii to outsell the Xbox so easily? I must admit that I don't really believe that Media markt will raise the prices of the Xbox 360 again. I think first the new shrinked Xbox 360s will be there andf Microsoft will declare a price cut. (Which will probably force Nintendo to cut its prices too.