How exactly are fanboys destroying brands?

You really are quite a sad troll hipster aren't you Augluae. Your arugments get destoryed in this thread so you resort to calling the people fanboys like that in any way proves them wrong. Come up with a better argument then "your just a fanboy for not ageeing with me" or GTFO off this site.

So you are 40, you still post on VG forums and play Super Mario ?

Yeah right.

There are several arguments which have been repeated by other users, and that's exactly why I use the word fan: sane, objective people would say the same thing I'm saying about the Wii U for other consoles if it was the case.

ALL video game media, journalist and analisys are saying that the Wii U is failing with a low chance of surviving this gen.

So YES, you must be a completely naive not to say delusionnal fans not to see that not only are their arguments everywhere in this thread and elsewhere, but also that if you had common sense you wouldn't need them, but your lies and stubborness are blinding you from truth and most importantly as I said: they are killing Nintendo.

Good question dear: brands (I'm not talking about companies, but rather brands as line of product, image, policy (in doing and selling the products) etc...are often destroyed by two influence. Internal actors (from management to executive director and mainly, stakeholders) who are making bad decision and External (consumers, fanboys, medias) who accept, encourage and support these decisions.

There's nothing that makes companies more sensitive and prone to change than the opinion of customers /followers/fanboys (the same goes for politics, celebrities, bands...) and when one begins to be completely outdated, out of it and make wrong decisions, the only reason they go further with it and get worse is because of the blind support of their fanboys.

Do you understand?

So by someone's standards, the PS3 is also a failure, because it sold miserable in its first year of life.

Oh boy =)

Vita is gonna enter on its second year of life, and sales didn't pick up much steam at all, so that device in particular can be labelled as a failure without worrying about being wrong.

At this point, calling wii u a failure, is premature. But if it helps you sleep at night, or gather clicks to your website, so be it x)

But PS3 was selling much better than Wii U in its first year...despite being insanely more expensive

It also had more 3rd party support.

Perks of having up to date hardware and actual selling potential i guess...