| Smooth Criminal said:
Remember the PS2 debuted at a staggering $500 during its time. DS is inexpensive just like the Wii. Consumers eat up inexpensive things. The quality doesn't matter or else the PS3 would be on top. It is and always has been price. So in the end, I am still shocked that a console could create such sales numbers (I think it officially sold like 110 million.) In any case, this could be the primary reason why SONY is hated so much. It was their destiny to go down this generation because a company has NEVER been on top 3 generations in a row.
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Granted that I do not know from where you hail, but the PS2 did not debut at $500 in the U.S. You cannot compare the pricing paradigm of the PS2 to the PS3. While it is true that MOST of the sales came after the PS2 hit mass market pricing, is that really a surprise? It is "mass market price" after all.
Furthermore, the "quality doesn't matter" arguement is a thinly veiled slam on the Wii. "Quality" is too vague a term in this case, and subject to one's priority. Let's consider two of many areas of quality....
Media center quality: The PS3 excels here (as does the 360), I use my PS3 connected to a 3 Terabyte RAID that contains my entire DVD library. Plus the PS3 has blu-ray - which I won't go into because that has been done ad nauseam.
Build quality: Sorry, but the Wii is a well designed unit. I have had to return a PS3 this year because it stopped reading ANYTHING, and (whilst I do not YET own a Wii) reports around the net indicate it to be reliable as do my friends who have Wiis.
And there are many other qualities as we all know - comprehensiveness of library, first party exclusive quality, quality of connectivity etc. Using Menchen philosophy on consumer taste just isn't appropriate here. The Wii is NOT just selling because of its price. It is a quality machine. The fact that the qualities it possesses are not high on your priority list does not dimenish its status as such.
Also, I (as well MOST other people from what I've read here) do not HATE Sony, but I am very happy with Nintendo's success. To imply that I (as a Nintendo afficianado) would revel in Sony's defeat would be highly fallacious. I own a PS3, and I am not self loathing after all.
One last thing, (bulletstopper) while I understand your points, I must argue semantics a bit. The PS2 IS a great system, just as the SNES IS a great system. I dust it off every so often just to beat aLttP. Current relevency does not make the system any less meaningful to those who have enjoyed it.
EDIT: Whoops, you changed your post while I was writing my long-winded diatribe.
