| Rpruett said: I've never laid price as the ENTIRE factor for success or failure. You've just mis-read, mis-understood, built a strawman, etc onto what you think I believe. I stated that I believe (price/motion controls) were the top two reasons for the Wii's success this generation. And when you look at the standard full-fledged models from each company upon release. ($600 PS3/$400 360/$250 Wii) it becomes very easy to see why people flocked to the Wii. It becomes even more easy to see when you look at all of the previous generation winners and their console's entry point price. Go ahead, I want you to list them for me. |
It wasn't a strawman attack given that it was you that stated, "...it was ENTIRELY sold on price IMHO." This statement suggests price and price alone the attributing factor for the console's success. At least in your final paragraph you begin to assist the price factor with the motion control factor. But again that's still missing the final key piece. Software. Wii ground fame on the triunvirate of price, input method and software. To disregard any as an equal factor is naive.
But you asked for hardware winners and their entry price point. I'll give you that. As well as the price points of those consoles that did not win their generation.
3rd generation:
Winner: NES ($199.99)
Others: Sega Master System ($199.99), Atari 7800 ($139.99)
4th generation:
Winner: SNES ($199.99)
Others: Sega Genesis ($189.99), TurboGrafx-16 (249.99), Neo Geo ($399.99)
5th generation:
Winner: Playstation ($299.99)
Others: N64 ($249.99), Sega Saturn ($399.99), Aari Jaguar ($249.99), 3DO ($699.99)
6th generation:
Winner: PS2 ($299.99)
Others: GC ($199.99), Xbox ($299.99), Dreamcast ($199.99)
As you can see, not one time in the modern era of video games has the cheapest home console won their generation.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
