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$199.00 PS3-----------75% of probability.......

 If Sony were to sell a penny ps3 with 1 controller and 20 gigs is a given

The PS3 would sell like hotcakes if they did that. The only problem (besides the fact it would cost them so much money) is that the other Blu-Ray players makers would be pissed that they can't compete with Sony.

As far as the timeline is concerned, this makes no sense at all.

No, because I don't think enough PS3s will exist to outnumber what Wii sales are going to be this holiday, even if it was financially possible, which it's not.

No.

At 199 the PS3 would still not outsell the Wii.

With a price drop that massive, it'd be a blow to public perception of the system. If it's that cheap, there has to be a reason why when it was so expensive before.

What's wrong with it, people would ask. There must be something wrong with it.

Then they would buy a Wii for fifty dollars more.

I don't not like it..but it's just the argument case and point.  Any straight up Mario game (as in, not say Mario Party or Paper Mario but MARIO like Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, etc) is going to be a great game, sure as the sun will rise.  I was referring to the coming holidays and what's coming out though.  Most Nintendo fans have even said there isn't much to look forward to at this point.  There definately isn't a lineup to compare with 360 or PS3, and that's all I was really getting at.

The only thing that people would ask would be what the differences are in this PS3 version.  Given that it would be the same PS3 as the 80 gig, the only difference is the price.  People wouldn't care, the price drop would just give more people an incentive to get one.

Look, if the PS3 dropped more than half its price for no apparent reason, even I would be suspicious about it.

Something like that would just be bizarre.

You certainly can't compare the PS3 or 360 lineup to the Wii lineup, that's true. Wii's lineup has Wii Sports and Wii Play, which were both voted among the top 20 favorite games of all time by consumers. It has Mario Galaxy, the highest rated game by critics this gen, and the top-selling platformer this gen. It has Zelda, the top adventure game of the gen. Beyond Wii Sports, it still has the best-selling sports game of all time, and what will soon be the best-selling fighter and best-selling racer of all time.

360 and PS3 have lots of games that are highly rated by critics, using what consumers are voting are outdated and meaningless metrics. If those metrics mean a lot to you, you'll own one of those consoles, which is fine. I hope you enjoy it. But please stop trying to educate the majority about how Wii's lineup sucks.

Or, the snarky version: Comments about Wii having the worst lineup fit perfectly in a thread based on speculating around ridiculous hypotheticals.