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Burgles on 04 August 2008
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DMeisterJ said:
Soriku said:
DMeisterJ said:
He didn't call the Wii a fad, per se, he was talking about the controller. At least that's what the paragraph before it was talking about. Since there was no mention of Wii in the paragraph when he said fad, I'll take it that the second paragraph was siimply a continuation of the first.

The Wii is a major selling point for the Wii though. If the Wii Remote was a fad then the Wii itself would likely collapse. It doesn't matter what he said because the meaning is still there.

No, not really.

He can call the Wii-mote a fad but not the Wii.

The Wii itself is about bringing everyone into the gaming world, the Wii-mote is simply a vehicle to do so.  The Wii Balance board could (and is) doing the same exact thing, as could numerous other peripherals.

I'm not saying his statement has any stock, but the Wii-mote is not the sole reason for the Wii's success.

 

 Are you sure? I remember the first time I got dragged into someones house to go "bowling" very clearly. Sure the wiimote might be a "fad" but it was the original pulling factor for the console.

It would just have been another gamecube\n64 without it. Its what brings the kids and adults together, old codgers generally don't like playing games with their childeren (video games) but chuck a wiimote in their and its bearable for half an hour. This generates massive goodwill through word of mouth.

I had a friend who bought an Xbox 360, then sold it after a few months through lack of use. He then bought a Wii and was well chuffed "Come and play tennis against me, its amazing" he said...

2 months later he's sick of it, no games...boring.

But he still bought the Wii because of the Wiimote. So yes it is a fad, or a novelty. But its a novelty that sells the Wii and its on an individual basis. When the Wiimote became a fad for my friend, it didn't have an effect on anyone else who was yet to go through the...ecstacy -> boredom -> what have I bought? cycle...