What if: Sony and Microsoft had both launched in 2005 at $399?

[walsufnir]

johnsobas said:

walsufnir said:

johnsobas said:
PS3 probably would have won the gen, and the wii would probably have sold a few less consoles but the wii obviously still would have been a huge success. Honestly if the PS3 was $400 in 2005, it may have been the last console for microsoft. If Sony would have just dropped the whole bluray thing, they would have been able to sell so many more systems.
This is all assuming that the PS3 would have been similar to the 360 in power and used DVDs. Lets face it, back in 2005 all things equal most people would have bought a playstation over an xbox. This whole idea that the reason the PS3 is having good legs is because of the power of the system is rubbish. Ever heard of the PS2? that had pretty damn good legs i believe.

would you prefer this outcome in comparison to now? would you be happy if the xbox hadn't been a huge success and only 2 competitors were left?

not saying it's a good thing if that happens.  It just shows what horrible decisions Sony made with the PS3, the $600 price tag goes along with Nintendo using cartridges with the N64 as one of the dumbest decisions ever made. Actually given the massive losses Sony took it is the dumbest decision by far, at least Nintendo never lost money.  It doesn't mean those were bad systems, in fact both those systems are awesome.   

Competition is the best thing for gamers, so i welcome it with open arms.  The more parity the better, and looking at the 3 systems with pretty similar sales i'm very pleased.  

 

exactly what i think. without strong competition there is only one loser: the gamer. but sadly when reading posts here it comes to my mind that some people are only satisfied if "their" console "wins" which doesn't count in any way - it's the games that count. ok, nowadays a few other things, too, like psn(+) or xbl but really, we buy consoles for games. the situation right now couldn't be better for us - we have 3 strong brands which all had huge success this gen and i hope next-gen we don't lose one competitor.