Another poster brought up the situation that Sony had when they tried selling the PS3 initially for $600. If the new Wii is anywhere near that price point, they are going to seriously flounder with this one. Nintendo has taken the throne as the king of casual console gaming. People will not flock to something viewed as a secondary entertainment option if it blows half-a-month's pay to acquire just the console. I bought a Wii at launch and I think I paid around $600-$700 for the Wii, a complete set of controllers (plus classic pads) and a pile of games. Nintendo will need to hit that sort of mark to make it enticing to "upgrade."

Your ID is too high.

Bah. I think I'm taking the ostrich-approach. I spent the early format wars preaching that the first $200 player was going to win. Best Buy had one on Black Friday this year, so I jumped... and bought a crapload of HD-DVD's.

I guess even though I'm defeated, things aren't so bad. I remember looking in awe (and a little bit of disgust) at the Beta holdouts after the VHS/Beta thing came to an end. Now I can be one of those SORRY SAPS! Yes!