Really, the launch date/price point was clever as far as I'm concerned. If you look at it from a business standpoint. All these little kids who want a ps3 for $600, that you can't even find in a store, 1 week before the Christmas shopping season starts, are going to have a fat chance of getting one.
Thier parents are going to go into a given store, see a Wii for $350 cheaper and sure as shit buy it. Just to, in their hope, make their little bastards happy.
ps3 will sell out in about 20 minutes on launch day. Then a bunch of douchebags are going to sell the damn thing for $2k on Ebay. Wii is going to have so many sales due to the fact no one will be able to get a ps3 and they want something, anything.
I was on the ps3 bandwagon until I saw the price. I make a $$ at work and I still won't buy one on principal. The only way I'd do it at launch is if I sold my soul to find two ps3's and ebayed one of them to pay for the two I just bought.
And in the end it's all about fun, and Wii looks like it will be fun as hell.
Also, it's more powerful than the xbox as far as I understand. The xbox being the most powerful console from the previous generation. So, if the xbox is maybe = to a ps2.25 look at it like the wii is a ps2.5. It's got it's big toe in the graphical waters of the new generation. And play looks as if it's going to kick ass.
So, anyway, the point is that it should be fun and Fils-Aime is a better friggin businessman than any of us like to think we are. And also, go buy yourself a damn upconverting dvd player for $75 bucks from target if it's that important it plays back dvd's (are there cavemen without dvd players anymore?).
rant over.