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Old 05-11-2006, 08:21 AM   #19 (permalink)
Vaclav
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Originally Posted by Soriak
The Wii is a budget console - it doesn't have nearly the power of the xbox360 and ps3. It may have fun games, but it's pretty much a different market. And the price difference between the 360 and ps3 is meaningless, considering you get a bluray player with the ps3. I say it again, a standalone player is over $1,000 - personally, I want to watch bluray movies now, not in 3 years when the players drop to acceptable prices.

I think that bluray player will lure in a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't be playing games. It's a great way to make it "acceptable" in a home entertainment system for adults.
You'd better hope they learned their lesson from PS2 era then - the PS2 was a mighty reasonable DVD player back when it first released (about $50 less than the standard at the time IIRC)... but for the people that used them as DVD players frequently tended to have a life expentancy measured in WEEKS, occasionally months until the first revision about 6 months after US release.
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