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psrock on 31 March 2009

It's funny how MS and Sony has no respect for the Wii.



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agardini51 on 31 March 2009
RVDondaPC said:
I don't know about you guys but if I was an uncle and I had a nephew or niece with a 5th or 6th birthday coming up I'd be pretty willing to get him a $99 PS2 and some great classic games that I know are quality and really cheap then to spend $250 on a Wii with $40 games. I'm sure a lot of other gift givers out there, a lot of which may not even know video games, would see a $99 price tag and think that is a very good gift for a youngster.

 

You make a very good point. A person could buy the PS2 with tons of games for the same price of just a Wii. I remember that when I was a youngster the gifts of quantity always were better than the more expensive gifts. This could give the PS2 more sales from these types of people.




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Nirvana_Nut85 on 31 March 2009
RVDondaPC said:
I don't know about you guys but if I was an uncle and I had a nephew or niece with a 5th or 6th birthday coming up I'd be pretty willing to get him a $99 PS2 and some great classic games that I know are quality and really cheap then to spend $250 on a Wii with $40 games. I'm sure a lot of other gift givers out there, a lot of which may not even know video games, would see a $99 price tag and think that is a very good gift for a youngster.

 

 and the kid would hate you,lol because even 5 and 6 year old know that the Wii is the "popular" system.



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Millennium on 31 March 2009

In other words, having run out of any valid marketing material against the Wii, they've resulted to ZOMGNOTNEXTGEN trolling.

Shame on you, Sony, for lying about what the generations mean.



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killeryoshis on 31 March 2009

$99 gamcube remind them of anything



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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 March 2009

Sony is overoptimistic. $99 PS2 has a chance (not a certainty, let's make this clear) to harm XB360 Arcade, but Wii is another thing, it has shown enough it doesn't suffer anything the competition tried against it: computing power, resolution, downloadable contents, high capacity media, price. Yes, not even price, MS tried, it worked only against PS3, Wii remained unscathed. The reason is simple, if you want a Wii there's no competitor that can give you something similar.



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Mr Khan on 31 March 2009

So both of them spin the Wii out.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 March 2009

Maybe Sony wanted Miyamoto to have a good laugh...



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Euphoria14 on 31 March 2009
Mr Khan said:

So both of them spin the Wii out.

At least Sony aknowledged it's existence.

 



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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 March 2009
Euphoria14 said:
Mr Khan said:

So both of them spin the Wii out.

At least Sony aknowledged it's existence.

 

Substances Ballmer takes obviously make him think that if he closes his eyes and reopens them after a while, Wii will be disappeared. He still fears it's lurking under his bed or in the closet, but he tries to think to something else

 



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