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

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fielding88 said:
Hi, I'm a vgchartz lurker for the most part. But in reference to everyone commenting on the PS2 being a fad because of low PS3 sales, shouldn't the sales of the PS1 also confirm that Sony's consoles were selling better and better until the PS3, in the same way that Nintendo consoles were selling worse and worse until the Wii? If the two were similar in any way, wouldn't it just be that they were both sales anomalies based on their console histories?

Great question. We could see the PS3 and Wii as anomalies, but I like to think that they are part of the pattern itself. Sony will occasionally have a console that underperforms (like the problematic and pricy PS3), and Nintendo will occasionally have a console that explodes in sales (like the revolutionary NES and Wii). The problem Nintendo is currently having with Wii U, however, is that the console is resuming the downward trend as oppose to restarting it. Wii U doesn't refine the core concept of Wii like the Super Nintendo refined the NES, and so I believe what we have here is actually more of a GameCube successor in spite of Wii U's namesake. And that's a very bad thing. If I were to trust my own analysis of sales history and apply it to the present, then I'd say Nintendo should've released a ~75 million-selling Super Wii than a console which seems like it will struggle to succeed at all.