Former Sony Dev: Wii Was 100M Fad & May Not Be Repeated, Nintendo Have Done S**t Job Promoting Wii U

[supernihilist]

Figgycal said:

supernihilist said:

Wii was a fad yet it sold more games than Vita by a land side this year.
Wii is still selling strong in SW deparment and still sells HW. He beat N64 and GC on the HW leg deparment.
HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT A FAD?!?!?!?
are motion controls a fad? thats another story....

 

i agree about WiiU though

Look at Nintendo's numbers since the NES:

62 mil for NES

49 mil for SNES

32.9 mil for N64

22 mil for Gamecube

100 mil for Wii

18 mil for Wii U...

There's a clear spike that defies pretty much all logic; followed by a huge dropoff for the Wii and it's successor. That's pretty indicative of a fad. The fact that it's still selling software made for the casual audience is because of its 100 mil+ stong install base of a mostly casual audience.

Sony went from 160M consoles to 90M with the PS3. i guess that spike that is comparable to GC to Wii proves PS3 is a fad too.LOL.NO. It sold 100M because it was a great product very well marketed period.

You just made up the 18M number for WiiU. And its a pretty bad prediction by the way, your not going to make it.

Wii is still selling quite a lot of SW because is not a fad. Thats a real indicative.