Personnaly I believe ALL is about
PRICE / BRANDNAME and overall HYPE
But since we are talking about console, games are important too
Xmas, 2006, Gear of war, I thought it was a system seller
September 2007, Halo3, I think it will be
And, for the PS3, there is no system seller but it begins to have good game (better that no games) it is why people think it will help the console a lot.
and for ur friend, that already """"""own -=Competition Console=-“""", I suppose u are mentionning people having a PSX and that dont wanted to buy a N64 ?
But right now, there is still +80M PS2 owners that have dont buy their next gen console, so this "competition" argument cannot be applicate to this gen.
(I dont even mention the +50M gamers that Wii may succeed to create from non-gamer population).
Time to Work !