Gotta love the revisionist history BS about the Wii

[Osc89]

curl-6 said:

Osc89 said:
Well the Wii U isn't doing anything to help fight the "Wii was a fluke" argument. And the other statements are true, so I don't really get the thread. What is the other narrative?

The other narrative is reality; that the Wii did happen, that it was a premeditated, planned success that sold 100 million units through brilliant business decisions, not luck.

These narratives don't seem to be mutually exclusive though. In order to create any product there have to be numerous business decisions to determine the strategy, something that Nintendo must have got spot on for every stage of Wii development. No one can tell the future though, so there is always luck involved. They wouldn't have known what 2006 would be like in 2001.

For example, what if MS had come up with pretty much the same motion controller and sports game and released it in 2005? The Wii would have flopped, but it wouldn't mean good business decisions became bad ones. Just bad luck instead of good.