Complete and utter win. Rock, you have been owned. Go home and take a bath, I smell a bit of a whiff. :P

Sales numbers only mean something when you have no games to talk about. PS3 has the best games, PS3 has the best graphics, PS3 has free online, PS3 has the best future of games, PS3 has Blu-Ray. I would even take a bullet for Sony. PS3 is my life.

Because the actual consoles are the prices they are for a very good reason.  If the PS3 80GB and 360 Elite were $250 right now they would be very different Machines with less power. 

The question is valid only in imagination land.  If you want to know the best dollar for dollar value of each console in the real world then you ask which is the best value at the current price.

Even then each person's answer only reflects their personal situation as most people will likely have a uniquely ordered set of valued features and capabilities. Even then it lacks any statistical importance for the population at large because any gaming website is going to have a great deal of sample bias.

In terms of a pure Money spent to what you get in terms of Hardware, the PS3 is clearly the best value.

Wow, as a fellow human being I implore you to find other activities...seriously that is unhealthy.

Wii's price no longer has anything to do with the competition.

Sure if PS3 had been the same machine and released at $250, then it would have won.

But, Nintendo is now in a position where it should only lower the price when sales decrease - whether or not it has anything to do with other consoles.

I anwsered noname on why it would be a good way, not what's the best value, that I anwsered a few posts above (either PS3 or 360, probably PS3 due to future developments, I neglected to mention that). Now, you talk about people who didn't get PS2's before not getting a PS3 now... well, far more people got PS2's than they did XBox's or Cubes... if the PS3 had a great price like 250$ many PS2 owners would go for it, and not for the Wii or the 360, therefore the PS3 sales would be on top due to best value (or 360, it's a better purchase atm).

It is obvious I would say the PS3 is the best value. It has all the best exclusive games that I want. The PS3 line up of games for this year and beyond looks very exciting and it all boils down to your own opinion on what the individual perceives as being the best buy.

I applaud your honesty here (no sarcasm), but you're just proving my point on why it isn't possible to have this discussion. I don't care for most of the things on your list (save free online!). Where the PS3 is your life, it's the console I'm least likely to ever purchase, because we look for different things in our consoles.

Such prices are only valid in said imagination land, therefore the question should be anwsered as if you're living in imagination land.