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NYANKS on 03 April 2011
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RolStoppable said:
NYANKS said:

I keep coming back to the Wii and it's initial impact.  The benefit of being the leader is that you have less to prove.  Kinect and Move were just following a trend made by the Wii, and the latter was always going to be the biggest impact.  The PS3 became a better Wii months ago, the gen started years ago. A little late to the party to run significant interference.  Kinect was the fastest thing ever because if you inundate people with enough marketing and show a decent product and copy a past significant achievment, you can sell a damn lot.  I always pegged these for being temporary attempts to get some of the Wii pie, anyone who thought it would make Wii third permanently is a lunatic.  Should it be in third?  That's opinon entirely  :P

I have to disagree on the notion that the leader has less to prove. Whether it's video games, sports or other things, the leader is the one who has the most to prove. If you are on top, then all eyes are on you. I don't think that you would disagree that Sony had to prove the most with the PS3 coming off the massive success of the PS2 while Nintendo and Microsoft hadn't to prove as much with their 7th gen consoles, because they were only also-rans in the previous generation.

Once the Wii was on top, Nintendo had to prove time and time again that it wasn't just a fluke. Then they failed and sales started to collapse. They went from being sold out for years to barely beating the HD consoles individually within a matter of months.

Now what was I going to say again? Ah yes, it still looks bad for the HD consoles that they have trouble to outrun a wounded horse. If five years ago anyone was going to tell you that Nintendo would be in the same position as the Gamecube in terms of support, but still be competitive in weekly sales with Sony and Microsoft, you would have laughed your ass off.

This is my problem.  How fast do you expect a formerly incredibly dominant console to fall?  From completely dominant to middle of the pack is pretty bad to me in a matter of months.  Given time the Wii will fall further, unless it rectifies something.  Even during its "good" years I kind of found its library lacking, apparently for consumers it is enough.