> EVEN GAMES COST $80 with TAX which comes out for
> $100 PER GAME.

$20 sales tax, eh? Seems kinda steep

> no-one really knows if Blu-ray is gnna work,
> just becasue they say it will, doesn’t mean
> it does.

How can a company safely sell something that ‘doesn’t work’? Of course it’s going to WORK. The problem is whether hollywood is going to adopt it as THE next gen format…

> becasue heavens forbid that they will start
> making DVD players

The Wii will play DVD’s

> but I definetly think that Microsoft and
> Nintendo are tied becasue Microsoft will
> release Halo 3 for the 360 and Windows
> Vista will come with Halo 2

I wouldn’t say MS and Nintendo are tied at all. I wouldn’t even say they are in the same ‘war’. And what the hell does Vista have to do with the 360′s ‘edge’? Nintendo will win the ‘war’ with pure numbers. People will buy it because it’s cheap. But more than likely, people will own a 2nd system and THAT’S where the fight comes in. If PS3 can deliver on a lot of the promises it has and blows everyone away, maybe it can shed some of the bad publicity it’s had over the recent months and gain some market share on the 360. But as far as market share alone goes, it’s almost a no brainer that Nintendo will take it.

Other than Wii’s expanded market, they don’t stand a chance in market share. Profit is another ball game. Especially with the online library of nostolgia.

Hmmm…

On the topic at hand though, these are fairly standard looking kiosks but any info is interesting at this stage in the game. Great find!

I have two friends who have purchased X-Box 360s at launch, and they’ve both already sold them. Why? Because there’s not really much of a variety in terms of games yet. I’m sure in months to come that will expand, but by the time more than a handful of games worth playing are released for the console, the conole’s price will already have been reduced. This goes for PS3 and Wii as well. Are the extra $200 you’re spending on a PS3, extra $30 you’re spending on the games and extra god-knows-what you’re spending on peripherals really going to justify the marginally better graphics and the betamax of the aughts? For me personally, no. But I guess for fans of Sony and Playstation, it might be. At least with Wii it’s packing a little more punch than, “Oh, our games look nicer again and you can watch movies.”

Nice leak!