The "If XXX console came out at $yyy.yy price argument", and why its WRONG.

[Final-Fan]

Seriously, Smashchu, if you look at the post right above your own, you will see posts from Words of Wisdom, Sqrl, and myself explaining in detail what this thread is all about. 

Words of Wisdom argues, like you only more articulately, that these utterly hypothetical statements are perfectly okay, but also explains why they add nothing to any real-world argument.

Sqrl argues, with a rather spectacular example, that the utterly hypothetical statements (hereafter UHSes) not only add nothing to the debate but foment a kind of "magical thinking" whereby the UHS somehow validates whatever point they are trying to make; and he therefore believes that we should stamp out these UHSes on the forums.  

I, Final-Fan, remind the thread of my earlier argument that the UHSes are amusing and harmless, except when idiots try to use them (as in Sqrl's example) in the mistaken belief that they somehow pertain to reality in any way.  

Again, this is all in the post right above the one in which you state that we do not understand that the Utterly Hypothetical Statement is, in fact, Utterly Hypothetical, and proceed to give a UHS about the PS3. 

I can only hope that you realize it means nothing to the real world prospects of the PS3.  (I presume you meant "What if ... $400 launch price"; if you mean another price drop, then you are not making a UHS, but rather what is essentially a prediction -- and that prediction is wrong.)