Is the Wii really competing with PS3 and Xbox 360?

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FinalEvangelion said:

Legend11 said:

I think price has a lot to do with the current situation and if products are competing with each other. For example if the Wii was priced at $450 or $500 would it be selling out like it is now? If they had made the PS3 without blu-ray and had scaled back on a few other things and released a console for $199 or $250 how would it be selling?

I think that the Wii isn't really competing with anyone (or maybe the PS2) at the low-end in console gaming and that the 360 and PS3 are competing for the high-end in console gaming.

Yea, I'm sure the PS3 could have done better if it was able to be launched around the price of the Xbox 360 without blu-ray.

 Understatement of the year IMO I think if the PS3 launched at $399 it would have obliterated the competition. I know people will call me (and Sony) crazy but I still believe Sony had the ability to sell their console on brand name alone. I just think they screwed themselves out of it by being $200 dollars too damn high. The cost was just out of reach man. All they needed to do was release something similar to Xbox is price and power and it was game over. Its not like the PS3 would have needed to gather 3rd party support, it had all of the support before it even launched! All they had to do was release something with a decent price for the consumers and they would have just continued where they left off.

 

I dont think its to late for them now, but I do feel in the eyes of the average consumer, every day that passes is another day a person has to let the purchase of a PS3 float farther and farther away from his/her mind. You have to remember the average gamer has no idea about BR diodes decreasing in price or anything like that.  The longer Sony waits to drop $200 and hit that magic price point the harder that uphill climb will be.