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

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curl-6 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

For Wii U, the $300 model had 8GB, while the $350 had 32 GB.  That can be a very big difference if games require a 2-4 GB install in order to play.  For the XBox 360, the Core model had 256 MB at launch while the Pro had 20 GB.  That is a pretty big difference in storage.  I'm not even sure what you could play on the XBox360 with only 256 MB.  I would think most people would need to buy a bigger hard drive for their XBox360 if they wanted to use it as their dedicated console.  I owned a PS3, and I know I played a lot of games that required an install that was bigger than 256 MB.

For both the XBox360 and our theoretical "Wii HD" the more expensive version would basically be the "real version" of the console.