The Wii's fall from grace

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Gilgamesh said:

Play4Fun said:

 I thought the Wii was selling at around the same rate as PS3/360...  >_>

Were people expecting the sales to keep sky-rocketing into the heavens for all eternity? Never slowing down?

Nintendo will just squeeze the last drops out of it, like Sony did with the PS2, and move on to its successor.

So you think it's normal for a market leader to peak on it's 2nd year and sell quite a bit less every year after while the competition get's stronger and stronger with sales? Normally it's suppose to peak around the 4th year then have sales slowly going down while still killing the competition.

This is definitely a first, usually when we find a market leader it dominates the whole gen. The way things are looking in the end this gen could become a statistical tie between the Wii, PS3 and X360.

It is easy to scream "GROWTH" when you are starting from a lower sales base.

The Wii peaked in its second year and tapered off...but that is because sales were astronomical in 2008. Even though the competition is on the rebound, their best sales years still are not close to the Wii's worst.

The idea of a statistical tie happening though is laughable. The PS3 does not have an American presence that strong and the 360 is losing its grip in EMEAA. In order for those consoles to make up a 30m plus lead..... I'm not even gonna bother.