If all 3 consoles were $299.99, the PS3 would be in Lead by 300,000.

[deadhorse]

HappySqurriel said:

deadhorse said:
Okay, if they were all the same price, which would never happen. The Wii would sell worse than the Game Cube, the 360 would sell better than the Xbox, and the PS3 would sell better than the PS2 in its lifespan. We live in the real world however. A more plausible scenario would be if the Wii and the 360 were the same price and Sony released the PS3 with less capabilities and no DVD player support for $300 then they would dominate just like the last 2 generations. Too bad they made the biggest mistake they could. I was looking forward to the PS3.

Actually it wasn't the biggest mistake they could have made ...

Technically speaking, Sony had the opition of producing a far more powerful system at a much higher price. With a very small R&D investment a company could put together a dual cpu (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX670), quad GPU (GeForce 8800), and 4GB of DDR3; even with the greatest volume discounts and the parent company taking a loss you would be unable to sell this system for less than $1200. The performance gap between this system and the PS3 would be very large as anything the PS3 could do at 30 FPS at a resolution of 480p this system could do at 60FPS at a resolution of 1080p with 16xAA and 16xAF.

Well, that would still be the same mistake, making an overpriced system.  But yeah, $1200 would be far worse