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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SnowRaven" data-source="post: 3066642" data-attributes="member: 42350">Simply because it's cheaper really. That's more than enough for plenty of folks. (See my Wii COmments later.)I think it works bad either way for Sony. If the best they can say is "it's unfair to compare, we're only $100 more than an equivalent system!" then I think the general market will see it for what it is, a BluRay push that will be lost on most gamers.It's a better value if you add in all those features that mean nothing to the common gamer. If you put a free country western music CD in every D&D book, and charged extra for them, that wouldn't mean people got extra value. They're telling people what they want instead of listening to what they want.I think the PS3 will be lagging behind the 360 significantly for a couple years. I think more XBox users will switch to 360, while a lot of PS2ers will simply stick with PS2's.I think the Wii's main focus is on actual gameplay, rather than theoretical processing. The gimick controller is hard to judge, but I think the Wii Campaign will be focused more on gaming vs "multimedia".What I think is missing, is the idea that early adopters that are willing to spend $1000 for the perfect setup will get their system, but I think people are ignoring the holiday season and the kid angle.Frankly, if parents are buying a gift, or someone else is buying a gift, you're more likely to sell them that Wii than the 360 or PS3. I think parents will prefer the Wii in a lot of ways, games as well as price.For Sony, I think the PS2 will maintain a lot more inertia than the PS3 will gain. It will be a while before the current users switch over to the PS3 IMO.I think the PS3 has overstepped and the market will stick with PS2's for a while, until games that really look a lot better come out.(IOW, you'll see PS2 and Wii duking it out for a while.)</blockquote>

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