>>Please. No way has it been decided. No one knows how this new gamer demographic Nintendo is creating is going to turn out; how big it will become and how many games they will buy. No one knows how well the PS3 will sell once it's $400 and has MGS4 and FFXIII. No one knows if the 360 can finally start attracting some casual gamers down the road like the original X-Box failed miserably at. Probably in Japan the Wii>PS3>360 order has been set in stone, okay, but even then we don't know exactly what kind of ratio it will end as. Making predictions is one thing. Being arrogent and thinking you have the crystal ball that tells how it all comes out it quite something else.<<
$400 is historically too high a price for a console. Nothing has happened so far to suggest this has changed as of late. Ever think about the chicken<->egg scenario games like MGS4 and FFXIII represent? They sell well within a large established market. What happens when the market isn't established (as with this $400+ console)? I certainly don't know, but DQ9 going to the DS makes me wonder...
The Wii has the casual game market locked. It's as simple as that: easy (and unique control), lower price point, great branding. MS nor SONY will touch the casual game market. The Wii-mote has POPCAP! written all over it!
