| Branko2166 said: The argument about price is relevant. Simply because when the gamecube was geting owned as you put it, there wasn't such a large disparity in price between it and the ps2 as there is with the wii and ps3. Keep in mind that the ps3 launched for $599 and the wii at $250. When the ps3 does hit ~250 and if it is still geting hammered in sales by the wii then we can say that price isn't an issue and people are solely geting it because of preferance. Keep in mind most people do have a budget.
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As far as "getting owned as you put it" I think there's little room for interpretation. I was speaking about sales and pretty much anybody would agree that the GC got owned in sales. The PS2 sold 6 times as many as the GC! I'm not even sure if such a massive difference happened in previous generations.
You are indeed correct that the price barrier between the Wii and the PS3 is larger than the GC and PS2 price barrier. My complaint though with the posts isn't just that people put forth the idea that a lower price could help the PS3. It's the fact that the posts always state pretty clearly that the poster believes that it's a foregone conclusion that the PS3 would dominate the Wii at a closer price point* when I believe there are more factors to the Wii's success than price. There are plenty of people who bought a Wii unit or a Wii bundle resold on eBay/craigslist for well above MSRP. Those people obviously didn't pass over a PS3/360 because of the price.
*case in point: this all started with username's post " Wow Leo-j, do you really need to ask that, I think it's quite clear there would be no Wii."
