Anyone remeber when everyone said WII was a fad

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blunty51 said:

reask said:
I still think it's a fad.
Even if it sells 10 million a week there is no games on it I want to play.

Yea, it's a fad because there's no games you want to play on it. Totally related and relevant.

 

 

 Actually, its more relevent than you think. Just about anything that has been popular in the past half century has had people claiming it was a fad. It doesn't matter how popular something becomes, if the speaker doesn't like it he will call it a fad. Let's face it, some things that just about anyone would agree were fads were very popular at their height.

 

When you think about it, what is there to distiguish a fad from the normal rising and falling popular of anything? Very little. So this vague, derogitory term gets slapped on just about everything that experiences success.