madskillz said:
Actually, John Lucas, what all this shuffling is doing is making customers even more confused. Mark my words - this story will be all over digg.com Holiday 2008 - shoppers, mostly middle-aged women, will run to their local retail store - desperately searching for a Wii (ROTFL) and find nada. They will ask an associate what's the popular video game - and they will say 'Wii, ma'am.' And she'll say 'Apparently.' He/she will tell her the 360s are great - Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Beautiful Kalamari - but she's see PLAYSTATION. "Thanks!" she say, snagging the discount $399 version, since her son has a Playstation at the house. And it plays all sorts of games, and he has a Playstation she bought a couple years ago. Imagine the joy and emotions that will hit when she realizes her son's PS2 games can't play on their new console. You have to keep things simple for customers. If you don't - confusion can rush in ... shoot, I even had to refund folks' money that barrel past the 'This iPOD is broken and SOLD FOR PARTS' and they are like 'I'm sorry! I didn't see that message?!' Clowns ... but regardless, I refund their money, sans 15 percent restocking fee Bottom line - LEARN TO READ!
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I think you're missing a few important things ...
The typical PS2 owner bought the system for $200 or less (with a large percentage buying one for $150 or less) and the site of a system being twice as expensive as you were anticipating is (likely) going to cause some serious debate about buying it. Now a "Replacement" gift like this is also fairly unlikely because parents are 'trained' early on to be very brand conscience when shopping for their children because "Transformers" are cool an "Go Bots" are lame, every kid must have "Pokemon" but "Digimon" is ghey. If your 6 to 18 year old asked for a Wii you will either buy them a Wii or move onto the next present they asked for ...
