How long until the Wii becomes the most expensive among the 3?

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RCTjunkie said:

Obliterator1700 said:
Of course it wont, half the sales of the wii come from people that bought it because the other 2 were to expensive.

 Where did you get that statistic?

 

He made it up to justify and marginalize Nintendomination. That's obvious. In his world, the casual gamer doesn't exist and everyone who owned a PS2 is just waiting for the chance to go out and buy PS3s, any day now.

Listen up. The Wii will sell just as many units as it's selling right now, if the Playstation 3 was free. The Wii is aimed at multiple markets, but the market doing all the spastic frenzied buying is the casual market. This isn't something that's gonna change over-night, and the PS3 didn't underperform early on, just because of the price. There were mistakes, and arrogant assumptions made that cost them.

Software, marketing, price, audience, hype, loyal fanbase, word of mouth, innovation, gimmickry, trends, public perception, public acceptance. All these things matter when it comes to console sales. Blaming them largely on price is damage control.

...and as we all know, damage control controls damage.

What you're really saying is that while the blue ocean, software, fun, games, and marketing are all nice talking points, the only real reason the Wii sells a lot is...price, alone. At a higher price, it would sell less than the PS3.

....and then! Someone uses a justification that, "Oh, well the PS3 has beaten the Wii(once) recently and it was double the price(embellishment for effect), so it would surely win at equal price."

A. As if MGS4, restock, bundles, and a poor Wii week had nothing to do with it.

B. As if console sales scale directly with price decreases, and spikes don't exist.

C. And sales spikes are suddenly proof, while consistacy and averages mean nothing.

...I wish I wouldn't have wondered into this thread.