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FishyJoe on 14 February 2008
loadedstatement said:
For the most part, cheap things always sell. Higher priced items are always left to the wealthy crowd. Think about it. PCs are less expensive than Macs and PCs have the larger marketshare. Wii sells more than PS3. Im sure Gap button downs sell better than Ben Sherman button downs. Sure you may get a little more for more money, but for most people, the cheaper way will get than just what they want. At least thats my opinion. A cheaper prices yields a larger potential market.

There are some notable exceptions to this, namely the iPod. And as far as Mac/PC goes, Apple is one of the largest individual computer makers in the world and certainly one of the most profitable.



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TheBigFatJ on 14 February 2008
loadedstatement said:
For the most part, cheap things always sell. Higher priced items are always left to the wealthy crowd. Think about it. PCs are less expensive than Macs and PCs have the larger marketshare. Wii sells more than PS3. Im sure Gap button downs sell better than Ben Sherman button downs. Sure you may get a little more for more money, but for most people, the cheaper way will get than just what they want. At least thats my opinion. A cheaper prices yields a larger potential market.

The 360 and the Wii are priced within $20. 



DMeisterJ on 14 February 2008

^ Not the important 360, you mean the gimped Arcade, and that's actually thirty bucks away from the Wii.



azrm2k on 14 February 2008
DMeisterJ said:
^ Not the important 360, you mean the gimped Arcade, and that's actually thirty bucks away from the Wii.

 I wouldn't dismiss the arcade that quickly.  It has no HD but you don't need a HD for any 360 games.  It doesn't have the HDMI port either but there's a huge market of ppl who don't care about that and many are ignorant of the fact that it can get better than their component setup.

Other than that what else is different?  Wired controllers vs. wireless?



blaydcor on 14 February 2008

The arcade straight-up sucks; its so obvious that I'm not going to bother building up a a detailed, logical argument (Which will be ignored anways, when somebody replies with ''but dude thas jus ur opinyon!!1!")



Crusty VGchartz old timer who sporadically returns & posts. Let's debate nebulous shit and expand our perpectives. Or whatever.

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joora on 14 February 2008

I only wonder will we see a sub $100 Wii bundled with a game or two in 2012. By then it should have a large library and Wii2 would be on it's way.



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Katilian on 14 February 2008
azrm2k said:
DMeisterJ said:
^ Not the important 360, you mean the gimped Arcade, and that's actually thirty bucks away from the Wii.

I wouldn't dismiss the arcade that quickly. It has no HD but you don't need a HD for any 360 games. It doesn't have the HDMI port either but there's a huge market of ppl who don't care about that and many are ignorant of the fact that it can get better than their component setup.

Other than that what else is different? Wired controllers vs. wireless?


If you want to save your games you'll either need that HD, or buy a memory card (which appears to be around US$20).

 Edit: Nevermind, appears the arcade comes with one.



azrm2k on 14 February 2008

@blaydcor 

Ok just checked wiki, Arcade has a wireless controller.

It comes with composite instead of component but apparently it does have HDMI output. So basically the only difference is the initial video cable, no HD (it has a 256 memory unit apparently) and instead of being bundled with Forza or Marvel it was bundled with XBLA games. But now Forza and Marvel aren't bundled anymore apparently.

That doesn't "straight-up suck". Please inform me if i'm mistaken as I haven't kept up with SKU changes for the 360 and am just getting this from wikipedia but as far as I can tell the Arcade isn't bad considering the price. How is it so obvious that you refuse to state your argument. You're the only one being stubborn here.



dgm6780 on 14 February 2008

confidence, I think not! They dont call it confidence when your production facilites still cant meet demand 15 months after launch.



azrm2k on 14 February 2008
dgm6780 said:
confidence, I think not! They dont call it confidence when your production facilites still cant meet demand 15 months after launch.

 No they call it having launched an amazing product considering they already raised supply production and still couldn't meet demand.  Coming after a generation where their console was at such low demand compared to supply they supposedly had to suspend production of more GC at one point while the system was still alive because they had too much excess stock.

Face it the Wii is breaking records and people would complain until Nintendo makes 10 million wiis a month.  Then when the hardware quality starts deteriorating and you get problems like the 360 RROD or PS2 DREs people would complain more.