Malstrom: "the whimper of hardcore dreams".

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Torillian said:
How is selling at a rate faster than the previous market leader snubbing HD consoles? The market would be just fine without the Wii, and yes of course the public chose the Wii over the HD consoles, that's pretty easy to see.

And forgive me for misinterpreting the graph that wouldn't start at March like I wanted it to, I gave you extra to help out your argument. Apparently it went unappreciated.

Some people are unhappy with HD consoles and want something different, but if the Wii wasn't around it doesn't mean that the industry would fade into nonexistence, that's just silly.

No, its not, see your first flaw is to assume that the market would be doing fine without the Wii, in fact, considering the state of the economy and the historical sales trends of consoles at various prioces, the liklihood is that sales of the HD twns would not be much better than they are right now.  In fact even with their price cuts, the sales of the HD consoles seems to be trending downwards rather quickly.

Actually yeah it does mean that the console industry would eventually fade into a niche market at best, look at Japan, where sales of consoles are terrible, and especially bad for the HD consoles, Japan is merely ahead of the curve in that regard, sticking with a trend that is unwanted by the public, and refusing to expand the market, will eventually lead to a collapsed market.