People will buy xbox360 and ps3 and their new games. I'm not sure i see your point here...
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the cost.
thats my point. xbox and ps3 are retail whores. they intentioanlly make them so they are not backward compatable so to play that new cool game, you have to not only pony up 50 bucks for the game, you have to pony up 400 to 600 bucks for the machine to run it, and a couple hundred dollars in accessories.
the Wii is backward compatable. infact, you can go online and download their older games for free and burn them to disk and play them.
and you are wrong about the graphics thing. that is all xbox and ps3 is offering. the games still play the same, just slightly better graphics. the only thing you are getting from "more powerfull" is "more graphics", end of story. the controllers stil work the same way, the games still play the same way, what you can do ingame hasnt changes in years.
just slightly better graphics. something you can get for a couple hundred dollars by upgrading your graphics card and mabe your memory on your pc for a hell of alot less money than "keeping up with the joneses" by getting sucked in to a retail *****.
the Wii adds a totally new concept, a new dimension to gaming. xbox and ps3 add......nothing. just updated graphics on a machine that will only play NEW games designed to......suck mo money out of your pocket.
but im not trying to sell you. this is just how i see it. i get so sick of "latest and greatest" crap that cost hundreds of dollars and dont really do anything last years latest and greatest did.
for instance, i built a new box. a 4200 amd duel processor with PCI-E video card and SATA. i have an old amd 2100 that i added a new AGP video card to adn more ram. the differance between the two machines on EQ2 is margonal. they will both work on the same settings. "dual processor" ohhhh, ahhhhh, got to have it, blows the other stuff away. PCI-E video, ohhh, ahhh, twice as fast as AGP.
BS
just hype. all of it.
anad hype is all your getting with Xbox and ps3. hype to suck alot od dollars out of your pocket for something that MAY be margonally better than what you already have, but which makes everything you already paid for.....useless.
atleast with the Wii, you can SEE something totally new BEFORE you dish out the bucks. not just talk. but something that is totally new. and my hats off for them making it backward compatable. there is no reason, other than pure greed, that xbox and ps3 couldnt have done it. infact, i would be willing to bet they had to ADD programing so the older stuff WOULDNT work on the new system intentionally.
retail whores selling you a box of hype.
just my openion. but then, im the type that wouldnt spend as much on a console box as a PC cost, especially in light of you can get most of their titles in PC format and run it on a vastly superrior system. but thats just me. i dont believe in owning two things that can do exactly the same thing. im cheap like that. i bought my kids a ps2 last year when xbox came out. they played it for a few weeks and went back to WoW. so there it sits. barely 20 hours on my 250 dollar investment for a console, additional controller and some memory cards. not counting the games, of which every one has a PC version.
at least with the Wii, you can SEE you are getting something you cant get anywhere else.