You can't honestly believe that trends do reverse like this from one day to another. The sudden loss of interest is alarming, to the point that the Wii is being outsold 2:1 by a console that was previously outsold by the Wii 3:1. Wii could be called a fad without any trouble at all. There's no way price is the only factor here. It may have reached it's potential userbase and now sales are just going to go down.
Honestly the Wii isn't a very attractive item right now, and the only ones to blame are Nintendo and 3rd parties. Nintendo for allowing a large period without new games where not even them released new appealing software and third parties for flooding the market with terrible shovelware and garbage.
Anyways I'm not calling it a fad yet until the article is confirmed to be 100% accurate. I find it impossible for the Wii to have fallen so low to the point that it's selling on par with the PS3 considering price differences, that the only reasonable explanation is that Wii craze just came to an abrupt end, meaning it was a fad. Never in the history of gaming such thing happened.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
