| BTFeather55 said: I think the Wii popularity started out as a fad due to its lower cost and scarcity, but it became more than that due to the same reasons and a handful (as opposed to the bucket load on the 360) of good games. You would increase production so that you could have the consoles in the warehouse when enough people were ready to buy them. |
This argument always leaves me shaking my head. Nintendo manufactured more wii for launch than any other console launch in the history of gaming. From before day one they were cranking out consoles faster than any other console had been produced in its first year. They set records for the most consoles produced in year one and most consoles produced in year two; in year three they will set a recored for the most consoles produced in any year.
Why is the wii the first game console to get labelled a fad based on scarcity when there were so many of them made? It would make far more sense to say that the PS2 was a fad based on scarcity (something I do not contend), than the wii.
Believing that the wii's scarcity created its demand is faulty cause and effect, plain and simple.
