"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[S.T.A.G.E.]

nitekrawler1285 said:

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

Has nothing to do with that. The 70% of the wii audience will not return to the gaming unless a new fad creates itself. If there is a good product with a good price people will buy it. Analysts knew the Wii  would need a potent successor if the non-gamers were to come back after the Wii's gen.

It has everything to do with that.  The Wii was created to combat both of the problems  mentioned in my post.  Wii was made to combat ever ballooning software production costs and it's controller was made to get new people trying games to combat the lack of market growth.

The Wii is not a fad.  That audience is still gaming.  Just not on the new consoles(sales of Just Dance lead me to believe they are still fine with the Wii). To that audience the new consoles are bad products at bad prices. Their needs are over shot and the games are far too compicated.  The Wii doesn't need a more potent successor to capture that audience and that thinking is why the new consoles never will capture that audience again.  

 If those customers were wanted(and there are many arguments to make that they are not) then a more accessible, intuitive, and inexpensive successor would have been what was needed to replace the Wii.  It's actual successor was the exact opposite in every quality.    

Twas a fad my friend. it had three years years ballooning sales, hit its peak in the fourth and then dropped.