The Wii's fall from grace

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Salnax said:

The Wii's fall from grace is to be expected. It's patter is not too different from the PS2 before it. The real oddity is the HD systems. Their life cycles appear to simply be longer than the Wii's, and in fact, longer than any console I've ever seen. Remember when Sony talked about their 10 year plan? The HD systems are actually like that. The Wii is a traditional 5 or 6 year platform.

It's not so clear.

The PS2 peaked in Europe in year 6 for example. 

So compared to previous generation the Wii peaked abnormaly early. And remember there were hardware shortage the first two years. It's actually conceivable that without those shortages the Wii might even have peaked earlier...

The thing is Nintendo came up with a revolutionary idea ( motion control) , it took up like brushfire, surprised everyone , even Nintendo and since then they have still been living off that same idea which by now is getting old...

That and they went after a new segment of gamer which since then have move on to others gaming practices ( facebook games, phone games...).