There is one point everybody seems to forget:
The 360 was out in 2005, without any competition, but it didn´t sell well.
The PS3 was out in 2006 and as we can see with the recent price drops: It doesn´t affect the Wii that much and the Wii doesn´t affect the PS3 that much. Plus, all those games which were successful last gen are flopping right now.
You can believe it or not, but without the Wii we´d ask ourselves where the big videogame crisis of 2007 came from and what we could do against it. There is not that giant market for HD consoles everyone wanted to see, because the prices are just too high (and yes, 300$ for a PS2 and 500$ for a PS3 IS a difference), so the market all in all would probably be smaller now without the Wii. and don´t tell me all those casual gamers would buy a PS3 instead. They wouldn´t.
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