[QUOTE=IRG SithLord]One thing for sure is that Nintendo has REALLY gotten their act together for the Wii, regardless of the price.[/QUOTE]
I love nintendo, I really do. The GC and n64 fit my needs, because I'm mostly a PC gamer who like nintendo games. If it wasn't for MGS being mainly on the Sony systems, I really wouldn't care about this at all, and turn a blind eye to E3. However, nintendo *always* has a great E3 showing, I think everyone is being a bit too optimistic. Nintendo will chug along like it had with the GC, no greater and no less.
As expensive as the ps3 is, it will sell leaps and bounds above expectations I think. It's a consumer culture that buys things they don't need. A great example is that people buy SUV's even though only one person drives it. Gas is expensive, and getting moreso. Yet people still keep buying the gas guzzlers. Sony is the leader now, and the sheer inertia will carry it through. The price will be a bit of friction, but most people are like Yoshi over there: $600 isn't that much. And considering other purchases, $600 really isn't that much to many people.
Me, I'm a med student with loans up the wazoo. My research stipend is paltry. I can barely afford to buy groceries without taking out more. My guilty pleasure is I have cable internet, that's my sole excess. This is why I won't be getting a ps3. However, young, single, and recently employed males are the key demographic. They just started to make cash and haven't really matured in their spending of it. It's like "wow, look at all this money!" for many 20 somethings, and I'd be willing to wager they are into spending. And what do men like alot? Gadgets. And the ps3 has tons of it. Does it really matter how good a picture looks? Can you just not stand resolutions that aren't the highest of the high? Is it that necessary to get a blue ray right now? Many in the demographic I believe would answer yes.
That and again, people loved the ps2, and the third parties for the ps2 will probably publish for the ps3. This is the other important thing, and sony has it. They have the actual games to back the system. Maybe not this second, but eventually.
Sony knows what they are doing. As much as I do dislike them, I bet they will still be the leader, far ahead, in the next generation.