We need to talk about the Wii U sales, what happened?

[Mummelmann]

Rol; we never agreed on anything and likely never will. There's no sense arguing with a man who sees corporations as evil (3rd parties) people making decisions based on what basically equates to fanboys on Gamespot boards mentality.

Did I say the Wii was going to be a fad? Yes, I actually did. Every time I suggested that it would taper off in sales before and more quickly than the HD consoles someone (like you) would show me graphs and talk about what history proved and polarize the argument completely with statements like "Oh, so it will suddenly just stop selling completely?" or "So the sales will drop into Hades?" (actual statement in an old sales thread). Aligned launches and compared tracking was also popular. This was the full extent of your knowledge on the subject; graphs with past sales from other generations and assumptions based on past trends despite the market having evolved into something completely different. These graphs and charts and hindsight theories were the best effort you could produce. Oh, and quoting Maelstrom, of course, the most intelligent man on the planet (who also chose to go underwater when his predictions and analisys tanked) and the only one who "got it".

I have presented arguments and reasons why things are the way they are and I have predicted those very things in the past. Your analysis explain nothing and your past predictions have all failed, how does that strengthen your position and weaken mine? Why do your arguments weigh more heavily than mine?

I'll give you major kudos for not escaping the forums like so many others did when things turned sour, that takes balls. I have yet to understand how you can hinge your entire theory on 3rd party support though and how you could fail to see that the probability of the Wii getting good 3rd party support was slim at best. That alone shows me that your insight lies in the same territory as the ones who escaped; you had wishes and hopes that were never realized.

So did I though, you know what I wish? I wish the 7th generation as a whole wasn't the utter pile of crap I feel that it was. The greatest enemy of gaming as I love and know it? The Nintendo Wii? No. There are two other culprits, the ushers of Hollywood, QTE touting banalities in picture form. Just to make that clear.

I don't expect we'll agree on aything anyways, like I said earlier, we're too different you and I and maybe that's a good thing. There's only thing I do know; we should both worry about the sorry state of our hobby.