Rpruett said:
Viper1 said:
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.
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Again though, not once has a generation winner been priced over $300 (Something to take note of). It's a sweet spot price point that looking back, I am shocked MS / Sony believed they could force onto the consumer (Sony pricing themselves $300 above that, Microsoft $100).
Let's pretend for a minute that the price roles were reversed and the Wii was released at $600 (With it's same software) and the PS3 were released at $250 (With it's same software). Do you believe the Wii would have won? Again, if this is a battle of 'Software' no price would be too small for these 'killer' apps.
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You just don't get it do you? You are taking one of the 3 facets and altering them to fit your inane point. It took all 3 to achieve what took place. You alter 1 of them and the house of cards crumbles. It's like saying price the Wii at $100 but sell nothing but Anubis II. Or $100, same software but with the Atari Jaguar's game controller. Fail either way.
Stop harping on one aspect and look at the trinity I just informed you of. 1 does not beget a crown on its own. The 3 combined what is known simply as demand. And with adequate supply and demand, you get sales. Demand being the culmination of those 3 aspects. Remove 1 and the demand is lost.
