i think that the world economy is in a very bad shape for a UD$400 and up console without a price drop the wii will maintain is dominance, by the way i don't understand why people think that if someone does not buy a hd console is because that person is cheap, well there is something called budget constrained, that is what most people are, we are budget constrained. i want ps3 but i can only get one for $US1000.00 and that is absurd.

Everyone i know wants a hd console but that has become unrealistic so the wii has become a consolation price, and since little kids like it too that is a plus.

Also cant buy more than one console and buying one for just one game is bearable, but the wii is at a price where i can buy it just for wii sports and is ok, but hd consoles are another story

Because of what Microsoft has done to PC gaming I will never purchase one of their consoles, even though I recognize 360 has the best games this gen.

Try to keep up: the 360 is cheaper than the Wii in many parts of the world as well as offering the Arcade version in the US which is about the same price.

If someone *wants* to afford a console, they will.  If you "can't afford" it, that typically means you choose not to afford it because you have better things to spend your money on.  After all, people are still buying new cars and HDTVs.

The Wii is not a consolation price.  It's the best console.  This is why it's selling much faster than the PS2 ever did, despite having the Xbox 360 at approximately the same price point.  My 360 gets a small fraction of the play time my Wii gets. 

sony will announce that ps3 is not competing with wii but with universe, terrorism and justice league(cause after saying that ps3 is competing with entertainment business i can't see what left)
microsoft will say that wii is for retarded kids, announce porn distribution via marketplace and that xbox 360 was competing with adult entertainment and ps3 in shooters so they've won this generation.

What is this Wii everyone is talking about ?
I have never seen one in the Best Buy I visit every Friday !

 Are you saying price is not a factor??? And about best console, what do you mean ? i know is the most popular but that does not means is the best (is Britney Spears the best singer ever?),  i only know 5 games for the wii and most are mini games or gamecube games remade(they don’t really need the wiimote and the wiimote does not makes then more fun they are fun anyway).

when the wii came out i thought i was going to see games like okami and shadow of the colossus (like those games not those games … because the wii is suppose to be innovative but no one is innovating they just fallowing Nintendo, and Nintendo is playing sure bets) in it but no, is Mario, link and metroid(uh and sonic),  that’s why i haven’t decide what to buy, i cant keep hearing a "pitting" when i pickup an item,scream "yupii" when i jump and pick up a star (how pretty /sarcams).  

 But you probably have never been budget constrained, so you will just say sell you fridge and the stove and buy a hd console.

I never implied price was not a factor -- price is always a factor.  I'm simply saying that the facts are this:

(1) The 360 20GB premium is cheaper than the Wii in many (if not most) parts of the world.  The Wii still crushes it.

(2) The 360 Arcade is priced directly against the Wii in the US and the Wii still crushes it.

Look at the ipod -- personally I don't like it much, but Apple doesn't have a problem selling $300 ipod touches when you can buy other 8GB MP3 players for $100 or less.   Apple is still selling way, way more units than those $100 MP3 players.

I think the Wii is the best because I find its games the most fun.  You only played 5 games for the Wii? The Wii has tons of great games -- I own more than 20 of them.  Some games, like excite truck, have easily tallied over 70 hours of game play, and other games like Super Smash Brothers: Brawl will definitely get much, much more.  Mario Kart: Wii might be my most heavily played game when it is all said and done.

The top game from this generation is Super Mario Galaxy.  And that game deserves that billing.

Sure, I've got a 360.  I've played through GTA 4 until I was most of the way through the third island.  The game is boring and redundant, the targetting/cover system is poor, and the game just isn't that good.  I liked Hitman: Blood Money a lot more than GTA 4.  

In my opinion, the Wii just has more great games on it than the 360.  Of course, I'm not really in to shooters, although I did love Metroid Prime 3, so take it for what you will.  I would pay twice as much for a Wii than I'd pay for a 360.

@TheBigFatJ

now that makes sense, good points too. the ipod is another mystery to me, i cant get it for less than 700 here.

P.S. forgot to say that to me the xbox is the most expensive investment since there is no warranty here and it has a 33% failure rate :S

Yeah I totally agree with TheBigFatJ. Great points, and my thoughts exactly.

Release WoW for X360, done. Might be too late now though.