Both of the HD-consoles are getting cheaper and pretty soon they will be sold for less than 200$. Those consoles offer many great games and the older games can be bought for quite cheap.

Anyway, I would like to hear what would be the pricepoint for you Wii only owners to pick up a 360 or PS3?

I've thought about it, but with the 3DS on the way I've gotta save my money.

I think the problem is that I will have to buy games for too many consoles.

I would buy a 360 at a price of $150 and a promise all the 360 titles would be playable on xbox live for 5 more years AND complete backwards compatability w/all xbox games.  Actually if two of those three criteria were to happen i would definitely be interested.

I would buy a PS3 at $150, Kevin Butler admitting Sony rampantly steals ideas, Kevin Butler taking a poo on Heavy Rain, Kevin Butler admitting Sony has been more interested in being a movie company instead of a Video game company, the idiot sony corporate guy (can't remember his name) who recently said nintendo shouldn't bash 3D glasses retracting his statements, SONY altogether being less douchey.

I probably don't count as a Wii only owner as I also have a gaming grade PC, which is what I play my HD twin games on. Basically, there's not really a price for me, as I already have those games on the PC. As for the small number of quality games on the HD twins that aren't on PC, I already have games I havn't bought yet because of a lack of time.

I prefer to buy more games for the Wii. In this case, something veeeery veeery cheap like $50 or less. Therefore, I'll probably not get one.

In our case here, since the Wii was purchased at launch, there were several factors. For the price aspect, we didn't want to pay more than the Wii, AND we wanted a non-nerfed system. (Thus the Arcade 360, with no HDD, was out.) We also wanted a number of games that we would all be interested in for the system. The 360 did it, mainly with XBLA and a few retail titles, coupled with the fact that when the Pro was being phased out, the price drop made it look a bit better. Add to this, a store that we shop at often (MicroCenter) offering a $50 giftcard with purchase of a 360, made the system down to $200 for us, the sweet point to getting it. And now we've slowly been picking up games for it too... we just need to get the time to play them and get them off the backlog...

So I guess, the price would be $200 with all features intact. And games that interest us. Unfortunately, I think the PS3 has been permanently ruled out here, since the ones with PS2 backward compatibility aren't going to be that cheap in working order... (And before anyone complains about the B/C request, the PS2 had to pick up that slack when PS1 #4 died. We picked up a spare PS2 for when, not if, the current one we have dies. I can't remember if the current in-use PS2 is #2 or #3 anymore...)

I would need to upgrade my TV from SD to HD which would cost additional money. I think someone must give me a free PS3 or X360 or HD-TV. Else I will stay HD-free this generation.

Actually most games are fine on a SD TV. Dead Rising and Mass Effect 2 are the only I'm aware of that difficult to play on a SD TV. Most developers consider that a lot of people still play on SD TV.

A cheaper way to go is just to buy a monitor. It pretty easy to find a 20 inch for about a $100. Which is what I did.

But with the monitor, you will need speakers. Unless the model has those. I haven't seen many monitors with speakers lately.