Here comes the "Nuh-uhs". "They can never drop the price that much until the generation is almost over" Lets remember Sony dropped the price $200 in less than one year. Don't think they won't do it again, especially with the line up of games they have coming in 2008 and 2009. A $199 PS3 with the games it has coming will do EXTREMELY well. Also, don't give me the "Sony is bleeding money", because its not true anymore (its debatable as to whether they ever bled money). Also, where is all this Nintendo love coming from? A wacky controller does not make up for the fact that the same system, released as the GameCube didn't do too well.

Like I said in another thread and was largely ignored (or called, how was it, "delusional"). The so called casuals don't buy Smash Bros, SMG, Metroid Prime 3, or even Monster Hunter 3. They buy, Cooking Mama, Nintendogs, Wario Ware, Carnival Games, etc. Usually they might buy Wii Play, but many buy the system for Wii Sports and never buy a single game. If you subtract the people buying Wiis for the non-games listed above from the people buying the "real" games (Smash Bros, SMG, etc) you are left with a number of consoles sold at or below that of the GameCube. And guess what, blue oceans will dry out. The casual gamer is the quickest to get bored.

So in conclusion, the PS2 won on tried and true standards in gaming and broad library. The Wii, because of its novel controller, is currently feeding on a fickle "casual" crowd and a the remaining former GameCube owners. If this was not true we would be seeing "Petition to bring Capcom's Resident Evil 5 to the PS3", or "Why is third party support so bad for the Xbox 360?" But in reality the third parties decide it all, and they have decided (in most instances, Monster Hunter 3 as an example exception) to pass on the Wii and are slowly leaking support back onto the PS3 from the 360. Michael Pachter has said this and gets paid ALOT of money to make such claims. Do you get paid for saying "50 million Wii's by the end of 2009"? I think not. Its economics.

I have a better idea. The PS3 should be free. Imagine how great it would sell.

I predict flames and sales trends in your future. Read it but I'm just not sure you're giving an unbiased account of what's going on.

Ummm, what? How in anyway does that address anything I said? Most PS2's were sold at a sub $199 price.

How is anything I said biased?  That word gets flung around all the time but it takes distortion of truth (the future is not uncertain and there is nothing "true" about it) to be truely biased.  Everything I said that I stated as FACT is true.

So, basically, you're trying to say that Wii sales are going to drop off if the PS3 hits $200 this year?

*Awaits Wii Bingo Card*


Also, you know the Wii can drop it's price too you know.

yeah i doubt it will see a price drop, isnt the ps2 still at $130.00 after all these years

Lmao do you know how much they would lose per system. Omg seriously they don't say let's make a price drop unless the system will become cheaper. Do you really want sony to forfeit console gaming? ALso please read this http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html

@insomniac17

Where did I say that?! The Wii could continue to sell wildly along side a cheap PS3, and for a while it probably will, but it will not last forever.

@stof:

The Wii doesn't need to drop the price "right now" but when the market is saturated with Wiis (which I'm saying will happen earlier than most) a price drop won't help the Wii.

THEY ARE GIVING AWAY PS3's FOR FREE

IT IS TRUE STORY BECAUSE I TELLED SO