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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 3570269" data-attributes="member: 2477">See, from what I remember, most folks figured Nintendo would sell lots of consoles as "second consoles", and folks would get a 360 & Wii for the price of a PS3, etc. Now, this is not entirely true, obviously.I was really having fun with the Wii before it released to an utter lack of anything I wanted to play on it. I held off getting a 360 for a while until I could get games I actually wanted to play. (And right now it's basically useless until the rest of the games come out I want.)BUT, all that said, the comparisons I've seen are all majorly faulty. Comparing Wii Sales for this month with 360 Sales for this month is bad logic. Comparing Wii Sales for this month vs 360 Sales for last year would be a bit more accurate, though still a little off due to availability issues.At this point, the 360 still has a larger install base (worldwide) than the Wii, but these articles make it seem the opposite.I think the Wii will keep going, but eventually the gimmicky nature of most of it's games will start to lag and sales will fall, especially when other consoles lower prices and kick out some big names to compete.As for the PS3? The price, the blu-ray, the arrogance... I never figured the PS3 would fail against the 360, but I figured it'd fail against the PS2. The PS2 is probably competing well with the Wii & 360 still, and the PS3 won't gain energy until Sony pulls the PS2 plug. (Which, I doubt it will soon, given it's making more money there...)Also, the old maxim is that "games sell consoles", but the Wii seems to be selling based more on it's controller than it's games. Except maybe Wii Sports. I don't know if that's sustainable, and I"m sure they'll want to transition to a more stable model once they get the game support.</blockquote>

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