Comments on: Nintendo Wii vs Sony PlayStation 3 vs Microsoft Xbox 360: Q2 2007 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/25/nintendo-wii-vs-sony-playstation-3-vs-microsoft-xbox-360-q2-2007/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sat, 17 May 2008 01:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: freetibet http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/25/nintendo-wii-vs-sony-playstation-3-vs-microsoft-xbox-360-q2-2007/#comment-6293 freetibet Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:16:06 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/25/nintendo-wii-vs-sony-playstation-3-vs-microsoft-xbox-360-q2-2007/#comment-6293 I'd like to see these stats updated at the end of Q1 '08 and again at the end of the year. Sony is has now dropped the price on the PS3 to $499 for the 80g version and $399 for a 40g version that lacks PS2 backward compatibility but comes with a BluRay DVD instead of a game. WiFi is now standard. They have the salespeople at Best Buy & everywhere else now pushing the PS3 as a BluRay player (for the same price as the others) with a free top-notching game console built in. It's doing what Microsoft tried (but failed) to do in becoming a true all-in-one home entertainment system (DVD, games, web browser, Linux PC). I don't see XBox surviving the death of HDDVD. It was scrambling to add each of PS3's built-in features with external component after external component before it backed that horse. I think it's done until the next generation. I don't expect PS3 to catch up with the Wii soon, but what will happen after Christmas '08 when literally everyone will have a new flat screen and start to discover HDMI 1.3's "deep color", which only the PS3 can deliver? Will Wii's low-price, fun-for-the-whole-family philosophy maintain its market dominance as the PS3 leaves it farther in the dust graphically and functionally? Will it be the Wal-Mart of consoles (cheap, but always the market leader)? Or will it catch up in features, power and quality, but price itself out of the lead? A gen-2 Wii with the features, power and video quality of a PS3 at a $600 price point could survive and continue to dominate the market if it has backward compatibility. I think that's the main thing that hurt the PS3-- PS2 compatibility took a while to work out and now costs a little more than the non-compatible system. I’d like to see these stats updated at the end of Q1 ‘08 and again at the end of the year. Sony is has now dropped the price on the PS3 to $499 for the 80g version and $399 for a 40g version that lacks PS2 backward compatibility but comes with a BluRay DVD instead of a game. WiFi is now standard. They have the salespeople at Best Buy & everywhere else now pushing the PS3 as a BluRay player (for the same price as the others) with a free top-notching game console built in. It’s doing what Microsoft tried (but failed) to do in becoming a true all-in-one home entertainment system (DVD, games, web browser, Linux PC). I don’t see XBox surviving the death of HDDVD. It was scrambling to add each of PS3’s built-in features with external component after external component before it backed that horse. I think it’s done until the next generation.

I don’t expect PS3 to catch up with the Wii soon, but what will happen after Christmas ‘08 when literally everyone will have a new flat screen and start to discover HDMI 1.3’s “deep color”, which only the PS3 can deliver? Will Wii’s low-price, fun-for-the-whole-family philosophy maintain its market dominance as the PS3 leaves it farther in the dust graphically and functionally? Will it be the Wal-Mart of consoles (cheap, but always the market leader)? Or will it catch up in features, power and quality, but price itself out of the lead? A gen-2 Wii with the features, power and video quality of a PS3 at a $600 price point could survive and continue to dominate the market if it has backward compatibility. I think that’s the main thing that hurt the PS3– PS2 compatibility took a while to work out and now costs a little more than the non-compatible system.

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