Was the Wii a fad?

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Soriku said:

The Wii peaked in 2008 but has been consistently above the PS3 and 360 till last year, which is 4 years it's been on top. It doesn't really matter if it peaked early because it was still higher than the competition despite this. In 2010 it even sold better than 2007, so even if it peaked there was one instance where it sold better later on than a previous year, and it wasn't till last year till things slowed down. And you have to factor in that its peak was insanely high and broke the record. It couldn't be expected to continue to grow unlike the HD consoles, especially with SW support slowing down which has nothing to do with with the Wii being a fad. This whole generation is exceptional anyway.

uhm..  that's funny, as far as I remember you guys were "expecting" it to behave very much like the PS2 in sales at that time, just at a way higher lvl

I must have missed the posts that said it was going to struggle to hit the 100m mark before its successor is released between all the 200m+ predictions.