I think The Fury msg with your correction about Nintendo neatly sums up things I read along this thread that I agree on.

MS badly wants the living room, they fear traditional PC market, where they dominate, could become eventually marginalized, or worse, disrupted, particularly if living room appliances come to offer all PC functions needed by a family, while Apple could eat massive chunks of the limited resource they are currently thriving on and Linux is always stronger on the server side and even on supercomputers and more and more in education.

I guess they have two reasons: an aggressive, monopolistic one, just what you wrote, and a defensive one, the things I wrote on the msg above and others wrote before me. These two reasons cross each other frequently on practical issues too.

Not everybody's a native English speaker you know...sheesh...

Selling better as of when? And what does that have to do with my response? Please try to read the post I'm replying to and analyize it before replying. I was addressing the OP opinion the companies purpose for selling consoles is to introduce consumers to their other products...not true, look at nintendo.

But since you brought it up, lets address it. Where are all the brand loyal 140 million ps2 owners? Why haven't they bought the ps3? Why is the x360 soon gonna pass xbox LTD sales? Why is Wii dominating this generation. Sorry, but it looks like a lot of PS3 loyal fans have jumped ship to wii and x360. You have to keep customers happy to keep brand loyalty and continue charging that premium. The PS3 cleary has not made itself worth it to its "brand loyal" customers.

Yes, this isn't strictly monopolistic (being leader would be enough to satisfy it), although it's aggressive and defensive at the same time, like Andy Grove's quote "Only the paranoid survive".

I don't think MS is more paranoid and power lusty than in the past, but with Ballmer in chief they look like they are a lot more than when they were ruled by Bill Gates.

@Simulacrum: You replied to a post, that said M$ wanting to make sure 360 is the second console in peoples homes, with saying that the way you see it, Wii is the second console for most people.
Now, the post you replied, was referring that M$ wants to push 360 to same homes that already has a Wii as a second console. Then, your reply in context to the post you replied, was saying that more than half of the Wii owners have bought their Wii as a secondary console to go with other current gen console, PS3 or 360. Now, we hardly can count last gen consoles as current gen and we hardly can count PC as a console, which indicates you were obviously meaning something else that you wrote.

@ymeaga1n: The trend since launch have been, that PS3 has slowly been catching 360.

Without brand loyalty, how well would PS3 sell in relation to 360? Aside from BD and a couple of exclusives, there's very little difference between the two. Still, PS3 have been trending to sell better than 360 since launch, with much higher price. If you didn't notice, i addressed this issue already in the post you replied to.
Nintendo is differentiating from the group, so the people who wants the new gaming experience, have no choice but to get a Wii, if PS3 would offer the same experience, the sales would be a whole lot different, with the most propability.
Now, PS3 has been about 1,5 times as expensive as HDD model 360, for most of the time, they offer the same and still, PS3 has sold better.

That's the reason why the strategy Nintendo is using is called disruption; it breaks the convential values that are dominant in the market.

Hmh...Ook. Forget pc and last generation consoles:50% of Wii customers could be bought as second console.I dont care if im wrong.Thats what has happend to my friends I know.

So,lets forget Wii and get back on topic.Or can we forget Wii?Nah.

@Simulacrum: In the long term it only works if they buy another current gen console as a primary console. The last gen consoles won't have a lot of life left, especially when the support is dying off.

"Hmh...Ook. Forget pc and last generation consoles:50% of Wii customers could be bought as second console.I dont care if im wrong.Thats what has happend to my friends I know."

Graah...My friends have Ps3/Xbox360 and after that they have bought Wii.I mean some of them.I didint mean last generation consoles

@CGI: Well, yes. Perceive would be a lot better way to put it. What i wanted to say, is that for almost every feature and game, on either PS3 or 360, the competitor has somekind of an equivalent and 3rd parties treating both as a single platform.

@Simulacrum: You should have said so.
Well, in Finland 360 and PS3 are both performing better than average and besides, because of your young age, i believe your friends are too in the PS360 target category.