Abysmal Wii graphics and PS3 price cuts

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According to a poster on the videogames pioneer's website
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Reliable source then :D
Personally I always play my games though with preferable a 10,000watt bulb angled directly at the screen, I find it adds a much more realistic "lens flare" look.

At least it doesn't turn into the sun when you use it though ;)
 
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Gottaa said:
Update: Wii games seem to be dropping everywhere to 32.99. All my pre-orders at Play have been reduced as well. Which is nice :)
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They obviously read my irate rant :p.
 
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Looking at play bundles for PS3, you get a PS3 + 3 games for 549.99

Wii(inc Wii Sports) + 5 games (one of which is Wii Play so you have a second controller) for 344.94

So I'm still happy with my Wii (fnar), and I'd say there sticking to there "cheaper than the other next gen consoles" quote. Why exactly though is the PS3 coming out so much later in the UK ? I just saw the PS3 in the US is coming out 2 days before the Wii, so how come the huge wait until march in europe ?

Roll on December though :)
 
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The marketing people at Sony are R-Tards tbh, that is not a price point that is gonna make their console a success.. they need mass market, not small user base of people with more money than sense. The cheap console/expensive games model has worked for the last 3 or 4 generations of consoles so why change it. It gets the hardware into homes, and gives users choice and forces developers to release good quality games as they are at a price point where you wont get to much impulse buying.

As good as PS3 may or may not be, its gonna fall on its arse. Atari Jaguar anyone? :D
 
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From Here

According to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret, 8.9 million U.S consumers ‘are prepared’ to pay full price ($500 or $600) for the PlayStation 3 this fall, compared to 5.7 million consumers who are willing to buy Wii at $250 and just 800,000 people who are willing to pay full price for Xbox 360 ($300 to $400).

This research, released first to Next Generation, was derived from a sample of 2,000 interviews Interpret conducted online, weighted to 2004 Census data of 13 to 54 year-olds in the U.S. Researchers ran a parallel random digit dial telephone study as a back-up to weigh the data to what the US population looks like to ensure that the online data was not over-representing females, which often occurs with online surveys.
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Hahahhahahahaha
*wonders how much Sony payed for that "study"*

That link also had this classic further down the page
Sony Australia's Michael Ephraim has questioned the price point of rival next-gen hardware, stating the Wii is "a lot to fork out" for the intended family audience, while branding the Xbox 360 as "pricey".
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I mean seriously, of all the things to "attack" the Wii for, they pick price. Hahahahahahahahahah.

/me hope Blu-Ray falls on it's crazy tight drm arse, I'm suprised we're going to have to go through another video/beta-max nightmare, but I'm sure I'm not alone in deciding I'll buy nothing until the needle lands on one side or the other, I do hope though it doesn't land on Blu-Ray
 
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Americans are also 'prepared' to invade countries with a bit of oil in the name of the 'war on terrrrrrrerrr', so i wouldnt put much stock in what that bunch of mongs say :)
 
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also, the aftershave Sex panther by Odeon is guaranteed to help you score chicks. Its been proven that 60% of the time, it works everytime.
 
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Interesting article here

About the PS3 outselling the Wii and 360 in the long term due to it's realistic graphics and the ability for it still to be "cutting edge" when the other consoles will be on there next iteration of "next-gen" consoles. Only bit which made no sense at all was
and a rich pool of potentially popular game software that will be released in 2007 or later.
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Cos surely all consoles will have a potentially popular set of software, specially with less companies wanting to be tied to only one console.

But all quite interesting for a friday afternoon read.

Now soon to go home and try and convince Talili we need to add Monster Truck 4x4 to the list of pre-order games :) (I might go for Excite Trucks instead but I can't find it in any UK places, so the decison is made for me)
 
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