Against The Grain: The Wii's return to grace

[NYANKS]

RolStoppable said:

NYANKS said:

RolStoppable said:

They went from being sold out for years to barely beating the HD consoles individually within a matter of months.

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. 

Yes, that absolutely is bad and that's why it's looking so bad for the HD consoles. The Wii is pretty much done for and they still can't really beat it.

Of course, if you look at this from the other end of the spectrum, that the HD consoles used to be miles behind the Wii and now are selling on par, then you may consider their current sales good. But given the circumstances that virtually everything that could go wrong went wrong for the Wii and that virtually everything that could go right went right for the HD consoles in the last two years, it really can't be considered much of an achievement for Sony and Microsoft.

Oh, not at all.  I don't consider this any great achievment for them at all.  I prefer to focus on the Wii, it seems to be all about that console.  The fact that things have gone so badly is the headline here to me.  To me the other two have stayed relevant mostly, while the Wii has disintegrated relatively speaking.  I just feel like the two HD consoles were just going about their business of trying to draw in consumer with games and such, and the Wii just imploded.  Seems isolated, which is why I don't get all the comparisons.  The Wii only looks healthy because it was so high to begin with.  The collapse may get worse, who knows.  Like I said before, we've never really seen this.  I'm truly curious.