curl-6 said:
I do not believe that the Wii caused a net loss of Nintendo fans, since Nintendo franchises, even the less casual friendly ones like Zelda, sold better on Wii than GC. (Which is where the real exodus occurred) |
It alienated some people, also I think while the Wii had a lot of good will in its earlier years, a lot of that good will started to subside by about the middle of the generation and by the end of the generation for a lot of people Wii was that "thing" that was gathering dust in the corner or that they only used for Netflix.
For a system that had a 100 million userbase, it could barely sell things like Sin & Punishment, Red Steel 2, Metroid: Other M, Xenoblade, and even relatively underwhelming Zelda: Skyward Sword numbers, etc. towards the end of its life span, which to me indicates a lot of people were bailing out in droves and buying a PS3 or 360 to become their primary gamer console if they hadn't already.
