Back when Nintendo was working with the GameCube I read a quote from Nintendo saying that ever sense the NES Nintendo has allways tried its best to get its consoles to $99.99 usd. They said that that was the price that people could make an inpules buy. But when the GameCube reached the $99.99 price point there was alot of people comparing Sonys ps2 and Nintendos GC by price thinking that the GC was hafe what the ps2 was dew to the $199.99 price of the ps2. So its up in the air, does Nintendo try to hit $99.99 asap or keep it high? I'd prefer they milk the $249.99 as long as posible, because i know that Nintendo will take that money and put it into r&d and bigger buget first party titles.
Sony lost me when they put the Blur-ay into the ps3 and priced it out of my range. Will it come down in price? Yes. But with Sonys push on high def playback and the anit consumer dmr statagy, I will be staying away from all of there products.
When ps2 and xbox were battling I was all agenst MS dew to there monopoly on pc. Now that sony may be a monopoly with video content I went and bought an xbox360 and an hd dvd drive. Though I wont buy any games for it i now have over ten hd dvd movies and I can stream audio video and pitchers from my pc. So im happy with buying the 360. Now I just need to find a Wii and I will be set.
