Wow. Nice little feature on Next Generation.

Lets sum it up nicely: generally speaking, and keeping in mind there are exceptions, $200 is the magic number for system sales. Both the PS2 and Xbox saw significant increases to their sales after hitting the $199.99+tax sale point, and got better the lower they went.

I thought this would be a nice thing to think about given all the talk of 360 and PS3 sales and such. Its going to be a while before we see either the PS3 or 360 Pro hit the $200 marker (ignoring the 360 Core here). While we could argue that the price point might've moved up some due to time, I don't think its as high as $300, and certainly not $400 or $500.

I've held out for a while that game systems need to hit a certain price point before becoming mass market - this is support for that. Until they hit that magic price point (whatever it is this generation), they're expensive, luxury items for gamers with spare (or saved) cash; niche items at best.