foxtail said:
The PS2 was competitively priced against standalone DVD players throughout its life. The Xbox and PS2 were similarly priced for the most, but the Xbox required a $30 dongle to play DVDs.
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So, the whole crux of your argument is...the PS2 and PS3 sold on multimedia capabilities, while the Wii did not? So, what the Wii did was impressive, but what they did was not? People buy gaming systems to play games, not movies. That is just icing on the cake. You may want to look into the SW attach rates for those consoles. Both have a higher ratio than the Wii does. So, that puts that multimedia theory to rest. The VAST majority of people who bought those systems bought them to game, not for Blurays or DVDs. Especially in the PS2's case where DVD players were much cheaper than it, even at its launch. At the end of 2000, you could get a DVD player for less than $100. DVDs didn't help the PS2. The PS2 helped DVDs. And a $30 dongle had nothing to do with the PS2 beating the Xbox.
Really, if I wanted to make a poor argument, I could say the reason the Wii sold so well is because people bought them to hack them (which is extremely easy to do) to play homebrew games/apps and DVDs, and that's why it didn't sell as much SW as the PS2 and PS3.
