HappySqurriel said:
With every system that launches people are immediately drawn to defining its success or failure based on early sales and, if sales are not amazing right from the start, people start claiming that it will be a failure. For multiple reasons the reaction to the 3DS was worse than most that I have seen, and when Nintendo corrected their mistakes this meme appeared started being used to "thumb their noses" in the face of all the people who made extremely negative predictions based on early sales. Once the PS Vita is on the market and the 3DS is well on its way to being a very successful platform the Meme will disappear because people will be far more focused on whether the PS Vita will be a successful system. Months after that, when the Wii U launches, the PS Vita will stop being the center of attention, and not too long after that the other consoles will release that and take the attention away from the Wii U. |
Well you're more than likely right on the point that the meme won't last much longer, but that's because memes in general don't remain in popularity that long. Issue is how annoying and pointless the comment is now. But we'll just move on to some other generic annoying phrase from some other fan group once this is gone, so actually trying to set rules for these types of things would be more trouble than it's likely worth.
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