Anyone remeber when everyone said WII was a fad

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Bodhesatva said:

AnarchyWest 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.

 

 

Look, fellas, this is all well and good. I mean that: I strongly encourage people to express their tastes on this forum. Perhaps particularly people who prefer the 360 or PS3; there are less of them, and we need more.

But the word "fad" is not a piece of playdough. It cannot mean whatever you want it to mean. The word "fad" has become -- not just in these above quoted posts but in many places on gaming forums -- just a general pejorative with a vague meaning along the lines of "I don't like it and the things I like will surge back to prominence."

That isn't what the word fad means. It has an actual, specific meaning. The fact that you don't personally like it (which again, is totally fine) does not make something a fad. If the Wii were selling 10 million consoles a week for an extended period of time, that would by definition not make the Wii a fad, whether it had 0 games you wanted to play or 1000.

I'm quoting this because somehow, after Bod posted this, 10 more people ran into the thread screaming "FAD!11" clearly displaying that they don't actually know what that word means.

I wish ignorance was a fad.