The Wii is Here.

[Afrobean]

Um... chromer, you're wrong as well. Sony will not fail, this is true. However, they will also not succeed. Six hundred dollars is simply too much to have an effective control on the market. They're marketing to people who:

A: have money
B: Are willing to spend lots of money when they could just as easily spend much less and possibly have more fun
C: fanboys

The fanboys alone would probably be enough for Sony to make a profit. However, compared to all the other systems, the PS3 will do the worst economically. Nintendo knows how to do it: they're marketing to EVERYONE, not just rich fanboys. Microsoft also did well by releasing their system long before anyone else and getting a piece of the PC gaming market with what is essentially a console PC. PS3, on the other hand, is coming out late to a very small market for a price which a lot less people will consider buying for.

By the way, all of these new standards like blu ray will all fail. They might be a great way of formatting games to hold more data, but the movie industry is on DVD right now and DVD is basically the best any movie would ever need (there are a few examples that don't fit on DVD well-- extremely long movies or movies with MANY extra features that most people don't watch anyway).