Sony CEO: I've played the Wii..an expensive niche device

[Impulsivity]

sc94597 said:

@ Impulsivity
"For 250 dollars Nintendo is basically selling a PS2 with slightly updated software that has very poor support for anything beyond playing games that were current in 2002."
That is why the difference between the wii and ps2 is about the same technically to that of the wii and hd consoles? Also what games were current in 2002 that the wii has?

 

     Find me a single Wii game that looks significantly better then Final Fantasy X or God of War.  The Wii is competing with the original Xbox for which system is the most powerful, its exponentially lower then the current HD consoles.  I'm not saying the Wii has the EXACT games from 2002, its the quality of the games in graphics and performance.  They put out very old PC hardware and charged a premium for it because the two competitors perhaps overreached (went too far towards cutting edge leaving them vulnearable on price).  It may be a good seller but its still a bad value.  If you don't agree I know a friend with a 1.2 Ghz Pentium 4 Dell from 7 years ago he wants to sell for just slightly less then a brand new core 2 duo 3.06 Ghz system, interested?  It still runs Windows 98 (and can't even handle XP) but that should be OK, since feature set doesn't matter.