[Halfmad @ Aug 25th 2007 6:05PM]

Well Nintendo have managed to sell twice as many consoles as Microsoft in half the time without the large number of hardware failures. I'd say that was pretty damn good going personally.

[DickHardknocks @ Aug 25th 2007 7:58PM]

Perhaps the WII would have had more hardware failures IF IT ACTUALLY HAD SOME REAL HARDWARE IN IT.

Damn thing can't even play DVD's

[sdman @ Aug 25th 2007 9:38PM]

Hey,
the PS3 doesn't doesn't break as much as the 360, and it has the same(if not better) hardware in it so yeah.

Perhaps the 360 wouldn't have brojken as much if MS had taken the time to do proper product testing OoO

[Slvrgun @ Aug 26th 2007 1:24AM]

Well the price definitely helps. How much would the Wii sell at the same price point as either Microsoft or Sony?

[JeffDM @ Aug 26th 2007 12:30PM]

Dick, to make a legal DVD player, it costs another $20 just for the license fees, and don't forget the requisite retailer mark-up and such. The $30 players that you see are from scofflaws that manage to skirt those license fees, which change their brands as often as they have to to keep selling their product.

A bigger company like Nintendo cannot do that, so I'd guess a Wii would cost another $30 to get another DVD player which most people already have. I really don't think it makes sense to demand a DVD player in it because there would be better DVD players out there, or most households already have many DVD players already.