| Figgycal said:
An obvious downward trend followed by a huge spike that defies pretty much all logic; and then followed by a huge dropoff for the Wii in its later years and it's successor. That's pretty indicative of a fad. Notice how in the same year that the Wii had a 31% drop in sales- the PS3 and 360 were actually up yoy... and were consistently selling better than the Wii over a longer period of time. 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. |
Dropoff in hardware sales was caused by the lack of games. Nintendo almost completely stopped support in 2011 and so did third parties a little later, and even then Wii managed to sell close to the sales of 360 and PS3 in 2011, lacking almost any new game. How that's a fad i'm not sure.
