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

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bucky1965 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

bucky1965 said:
I agree with the retail part of his comments. But not the fad part. Casual gamers or anyone else isn't going to buy a new product every time a new one launches. Wii-Fit is more of an app. The casual crowd is the hardest group to market to.

They are but if you simplify things, they aren't. Most games today aren't simplified. The Wii made it simple so everyone could enjoy it and thats why it sold like gangbusters. The problem with the Wii is that it went so casual that it alienated the core gamers who might have been interested in the Wii.

I completely agree with what your saying. As for being a fad, his analogy doesn't work, all consoles would have to be a fad. In decline? That's a different argument since tech is always changing now that you can game on pretty much anything with a screen, there's a lot more choices now.

Technically a fad is a widely popular device or item that quickly loses popularity after its limited value is consumed and the hype fades from the consumer because of lack of utlity. The Wii was that. The difference is the Wii's time of popularity truly lasted about four years. Fads usually fade out after like three years or less. The reason the Wii's lasted so long was backed up demand.