Hail to the king baby!!!
The PS2, King of all Kings and yet to be dethroned. When Sony says 10 years, they really mean it and no one should ever question Sony again, put frankly, they are the only company that cares, as shown by their commitment to us the gamer.
/Rant
The Wii was a major success just as many FAD's have been in the past. Yes the Wii and it's motion controls were a passing FAD, the Wii followed the typical trend of a FAD, massive uptake on sales followed by a huge decline all within a few years. Just consider this, the Wii sold gangbusters with almost no 3rd party support, sold gangbusters when we the gamers saw a drought of games, and the Wii kept selling gangbusters no matter what good or bad games were released. It sold gangbusters because the gimmick of motion controls struck a core with the casual market just like DDR and guitar Hero did back in their peak, but like true FAD it quickly subsided.
I know there will be people here who will disagree saying that it's not a FAD, but all you need to do is look at the Wii's successor, the Wii U, and it's clear that Nintendo thought that the motion gimmick/FAD was used and done for and shifted their primary control scheme away from the Wii's motion controls to the tablet controls in hopes to take advantage of the casuals market migration to such devices, currently their strategy may not be working but there still plenty of time for Nintendo to save the system like they did with the 3DS.
Now during this FAD, many, not some but many Nintendo fans kept touting that not only was the DS going to topple the PS2 from it's throne, but that the Wii too was going to topple it, and during the Wii's hay days it was all but a forgone conclusion. Just the mere mention of the Wii being a FAD or that the Wii may not reach the PS2 sales was scoffed at, but now is the time they should eat their nice juicy crow.
I and many people I know have known that the Wii was a passing FAD, if it smells like a FAD, quacks like a FAD, then it's a frigging FAD. All the proof was their visible for all to see, but most Nintendo fans ignored the almost non-existent 3rd party support, and ignored the software droughts that plagued the system as there key focus was the fact that for the fist time since the PSone a Nintendo console was dominating sales and their by dominating the generation. Truth be told Nintendo did win the 7th generation of consoles, but one could say that it was a hollow victory, because while Nintendo had the install base and the numbers, the 3rd party support was on the PS3/360 where the majority of core gamers existed, as such one could argue that from a core gamers perspective the machines that won out in the 7th generation were indeed the PS3 and 360, but it does depend on perspective so take it as you will.
My 2 cents.
//Rant
