You should have sold it to him for about $180 not give it him for free :O.

Unless you play games... not to say there are a shit ton of games out there to try out and play, but there are a shit ton of games out there to try out and play.  Really there has never been a time where one console has made another a "non factor" any way you go about it you're gonna miss out on games, and if your hobby is gaming... then you're missing out on your hobby. Hell I had the Atari Jaguar, the console has like 2 good games on it cause it had such a short lifespan, but its 2 games I got to play and enjoy so my time was well spent. 

Honestly whenever I hear anyone trashing another console cause of one of the competitors made the said console not worth it, I simply see someone trying to justify a purchase of one rather than the other to people who simply don't care, and I hear "derp derp derp" going through my head whenever they're speaking, its the oddest thing.

really, I don't see a reason to disheartened, unless you still had partial ownership or a stake in the Wii. If you did and he sold it without telling you then he would e kinda of a dick. As it stands, he made a choice many of us here would not make, but nothing unethical or amoral.

Think of it this way ... when you visit you can play PS3 games. My brother has a Ps3 and when we were roommates I played the system quite a bit. Now he is on the other side of town and one of my roomates has a 360. Nothing wrong with them having "enemy" systems. I can play them as well.

My brothers ps3 has been acting up lately and I have been thinking of making him a offer, as he just bought a 360 and enjoys it.

I don't care which systems are involved , selling something you were given as a gift is a d!ck move.

It's like asking how much a gift cost, it's just bad manners.

His moving on to better things ;)
I have both so I don't know what to say

I often give my things away when someone else is in need of something such as xbox 360, pc, laptop, hd tv, iphone etc
But I always add, that they are for using because that's what you wanted it for and not for selling and if you intend to sell it, it then reverts back to my property!

Can't stand it when someones good nature is taken advantage of by someone by selling something they have been given to them on the undrstanding they were going to use it.

I've sold a console only once and that was only because I already had one (Playstation). I even have my NES locked away in a cupboard somewhere!

Yeah, that's some pretty lousy gift etiquette right there.

Dude, your gift sucked, so I sold it! Thanks!

This story makes me shake my head in understandable disbelief...

I used the be the BIGGEST rabid Nintendo fanboy.  And when I first heard that that SONY had a console called the "PlayStation," I was like "sounds more like some gay bar to me"  (please forgive me here because I was blinded by immaturity back in those days).  And I was like, what's SONY doing making a gaming console???  But I later learned that the franchise that ran through my vessels (Final fantasy) jumped shipped to land on the console I vowed to never buy.  So I swallowed my pride and became a gamer the day I bought an original PlayStation, a memory card, and a brand new copy of Final Fantasy VII.  It was so golden.

During this time, there was this little invention called the internet what was really taking off.  It made information so accessable that I started to learn things about by beloved Nintendo that I never thought to be true such as their strained relationship with Squaresoft.  Also SONY entered the market with the PlayStation to help recuperate losses from a CD project they had with Nintendo in which it was halted after Nintendo stabbed SONY in the back.  So really my eyes opened.  But thankfully the heart of Nintendo, Shiguru Myamato, remained true to himself and is the reason why Nintendo has always remained with me in some form or fashion.  This is what makes Nintendo so great.

So congrats to your friend on his PS3.  It's an awesome console.

How could he sell something that was given to him AS A GIFT! That's rude...