Kind of a misleading title on this thread... Yes, it certainly was/is a victory for the Wii to continue to hang close to the 360 when Halo 3 hit the street... The price and target audience does help quite a bit more on the Wii side. This holiday will be interesting... The 360 sold (worldwide) about 3 million consoles from Oct 1 to Dec 31 2006. The PS3 did a LOT less, but didn't have Europe and was $600. I think that price actually pushed a lot of people who were on the sidelines for the next gen to go ahead and get a 360 as the PS3 was pricewise out of reach for many. This holiday will be different, for sure... A lower PS3 pricetag, global PS3 availability, an Actual PS3 game library, higher penetration/awareness of HDTV, more awareness of High Definition Disk Formats (Blu-ray in particular), a whole lot more DVD players that upscale standard DVD to 1080i/p and so on. All these will combine to produce a climate where the PS3 is much more competitive.
The Wii is still going to sell very, very well. I think Nintendo is blowing smoke, though, as I don't believe they will have the level of hardware available they had last year through the holidays. Maybe they will release 1 million or so extra around Thanksgiving/black Friday, but I can't imagine they are sitting on "millions".
Regardless of how it plays out, this holiday is going to be interesting.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
