Alternate history, 7th gen: Clash of the HD dreadnaughts

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

curl-6 said:

The Xbox 360 had a $300 USD SKU from launch, so Nintendo wouldn't have had any price advantage there.Well, that thread remains open and you are more than welcome to use it to speculate about the long term ramifications beyond Gen 5. ;)

I forgot about that version of the XBox360, because it didn't have a hard drive.  Even if that is what you meant for the $300 Wii HD, then the $350 version would be the cheapest version with a hard drive.  Wii HD still has a price advantage in this situation.

Based on the patterns we did see with Wii and Wii U though, even the $350 model would likely have only a small amount of flash storage. So I'm not sure the price advantage would help much. In the gen before, we saw Gamecube retail at just $100 less than two years after its release, yet still sell very poorly.