Could this have anything to do with the Wiibeing so chaep to produce I wonder?

im thinkin the wii is so cheap to produce because its barely better then prev. gen. imo. but who knows...

If Lite-On makes the HD DVD add-on for the 360 I will gladly buy one as soon as I can confirm that the drive is made by Lite-On, due to how well their computer drives are made. A Lite-On made drive would also be cheaper (and probably better, dunno who makes the current drive though) then the current one if its prices follow the same pattern as Lite-On's computer drives.

According to what I read on the Wii, its CPU is an over-clocked GameCube CPU. Sure the "guts" of the machine are not much better then the GameCube but obviously they did something correct to cause it to sell so well.

"obviously they did something correct to cause it to sell so well."
With the right marketing you can sell anything to anybody!

If all of these game manufactures of gaming machines were to make them so that you can log onto the internet and for a small fee download the latest version of their machines. This would bring the price down in one swipe, also I think that the manufacture would make a lot of extra cash.

This kind of thing is very common practise in many industries, in fact it surprises me that this is considered news in the CE business.

Car manufacturers regularly meet their component suppliers looking for cost reductions and better deals, for instance.

Thats great news now if only the talks actually make something happen. This would not be good for sony..