Nintendo and Sony have both dropped the price of their consoles ahead of Sega's Dreamcast launch in September, heralding the start of a console price war. These companies are fighting for the ultra low cost internet device market, all three are launching Internet enabled consoles, nominally to play games across the net. In reality these make ideal webTV busters. Why do you think people like Microsoft have been investing so heavily in webmail and pay-per-use web apps.