| Reasonable said: I was planning to get a Wii then a PS3 later but ended up getting new HD TV and reversed my order - now I'll get a Wii in a few months and it'll sit in one room with my widescreen CRT TV while the PS3 is already tucked below my HD TV. |
THis makes no sense to me whatsoever - why would you set a Wii up in the corner and an old CRT TV. I've just bought a new HD TV last month and the Wii with the component cables looks beautiful. It's about 10 times sharper than my old widescreen CRT TV. The wife actually said to me "you go on about the HD TV and the 360 being HD - I cannot tell the difference between the two".
You also state that Us is behind a lot of Europe with HD TV - In the UK I have 102 TV stations and only 2 is in High Def, the downloadable movies all have a HD equivelant and cost £1 more and I wont pay the extra £1. People on here sate way too much importance on HD, not saying it's not important to some people but what I am saying is I cannot see the majority of people that opted for the Wii choosing to ditch Wiimote and non HDTV for the HD TV and standard controller to be honest.
KBG29 said
Now one thing I would like to know is what product is going to come out in the next 7 years that will be more feature packed than the PS3 or 360. What other products will have:
-IPTV I already have this - get it with my Cable company, also has a 80GB HDD and can rec 3 progs at same time
-DVR dont even know what this is so I can live without it
-Digital Downloads Service for HD movies/TV, music, I have 13 movie channels and get a TV on Demand service with my Cable that offers me all of this, has over 500 movies and a vast selection of best TV programs.
-Blu-ray player This is a selling point and I do know people that own a PS3 for this reason alone.
-HD Games Will appeal to the more traditional gamer but I think this gen when it's a hard choice between Nintnedo's gameplay plan or Sony HD plan - the majority will go to Ninty.
-Internet dont even go there - I now have it on my Wii, DS, 2 laptops, desktop pc and works PC - guess which 2 dont get used?
Although the PS3 is a fantastic machine and it's gonna do well this gen I dont think the masses are gonna flock to it in a couple of years just cos they get a new TV and want these things. All in one solutions are very rarely massively popular - if they were we'd all have TV DVD combi's and one things thats always happened is people buy games consoles for games.
I personally cannot ever see that changing.
