binary solo said:
Jay70sgamer said:
binary solo said:
Jay70sgamer said:
ChudStudly said:
Smear-Gel said:
Wii U's numbers are due to doom and gloom, while everybody else's numbers are due to "slow summer months guys obviously they are low"
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That's actually pretty accurate. I'm not concerned about X1 or PS4. WiiU is a different story. But even that isn't so surprising. Aside from the Wii fad, Nintendo hasn't been the market leader in home consoles for a long time. Look at the GameCube.
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It's funny because xbox has never been the market leader period and it seems you are forgetting Sony wasn't the market leader for over 8 years until this year and every nintendo home console turned a profit Sony and Microsoft no.....lost billions also it's funny how a lot of people wanna say it was a fad no it wasn't 100,000,000 consoles is no fad ....it was called innovation motion controlled games something that wasn't done well until nintendo perfected it .....
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Ahem! 80 million consoles thank you. Nintendo was probably going to sell 20 million Wii's without the fad factor. A one generation wonder is the very definition of a fad. The fact that motion controls are now passe is also the definition of a fad. 4 years of amazing sales in the context of console history is a fad. When the history of gaming consoles is written in 20 years fad is the word the historians will use to describe the Wii phenomenon. When you can't carry over your install based to the next generation your success the previous generation is a fad. The fact that Wii tailed off terribly long before Wii U launched means it was a fad. The fact that PS3 and 360 both outsold Wii in 2011 and 2012 means it was a fad.
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Lol a fad is something that is hot for a moment and fades ...100,000,000 people is not a fad sorry any way you cut iton spin it so with your so called definition of fad I can call the ps2 a fad with the DVD player because Sony lost almost have there fan base from ps2 to ps3 (154,000,000 to "80,000,000) lol and you are wearing that ps3 and xbox360 outsold wii for 2 years like its a badge of honor what about the first 6 years lol and everyone knows nintendo stop supporting the wii in the last year in a half lol all consoles fade off the last couple of years lol nothing new or different for any console
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Yeah and over 1 billion people watched Gangnam Styles on Youtube, I suppose that wasn't a fad either. If the original iPhone had solled 200 million units but subsequent iPhones failed to sell more than 50 million units would iPhone not be considered a fad? Was Blackberry not a fad in the grand scheme of things? I say yes, Blackberry was a fad because it captured the attention of the market for a few years then fell into irrelevance. Nintendo was heading towards irrelevance in home consoles, it captured a new and untapped market for a brief time and now it is heading back towards irrelevance in home consoles.
4 years is a moment for consoles. Your timescales are just not adjusted right.
Erm PS2 was the follow on from PS1 which was 104 million (the most successful home console of all time at the time, and still number 2)-->157 million, if you wanna call 50% growth then 50% decline across 3 generations a fad by all means do so. In some respects it was and I say 150 million home console sales will be the permanent record for all time home console sales and assuming DS really did just fall short (I have my doubts) PS2 may well forever be the highest selling gaming console. But 376% growth (GC-->Wii) followed by potentially 80% decline (Wii-->WiiU if Wii U only manages GC numbers) across 3 generations most assuredly is fad territory. 3/4 of one generation of phenomenal sales bracketed on either side by 2 generations of dismal sales, in the context of consoles, is a fad.
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Whatyou call a fad I call innovation ....the iPhone was not a fad it was a new product of its kind (innovation)and till this day still sells well ...just because it's sells is not where it was when it first came outdoesnt make it a fad and blackberry wasn't a fad it just didn't evolve as a product with time.....
