jlmurph2 said:
Jay70sgamer said:
jlmurph2 said:
| Jay70sgamer said:
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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Which is exactly what happened to the Wii as seen by the last couple years and how the Wii U is selling. I dont care what anyone tells you, 4 million consoles sold in the first full year is not an achievement
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You are forgetting this is not a sprint and but a race nobody knows how this generation is gonna play out so if playstation 4 does not sell more than the playstation3 that would be three straight generations off the playstation brand declining ..will I be be able to say its a trend and that the playstaion brand is fading lol..people forget that each generation is different and that sometimes you win sometimes you don't lol it's as simple as that ...people forget nintendo has won 3 out of seven generations and has beat "every" console it's been against at least once(Atari,sega,Sony,xbox,Neo geo ,colecovison etc )that's a huge feat ...
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PlayStation dropped gen over gen once not 2 times. While Nintendo dropped gen over gen every single generation until the Wii came. Tell me, if the Wii wasn't a fad then why didn't those people buy a Wii U? To go from 20 million in a year (2009) all the way down to 4 for the next generation is unheard of. It shows that the Wii was another popular trend that faded away like every trend does.
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Yea jlmurph I'm gonna have to say you are spot on with everything you said. Couldn't have said it better myself. That right there is a HUGE drop off and one that signals just how powerful the Wii fad was. Sure Nintendo gamers loved it and liked to brag that the Nintendo brand has never been stronger (partially true) but it was a synthetic high caused by the 'fad' that was the Wii. I knew WAY more people who had the Wii just for Wii sports and had no clue about Zelda or any other exclusive. Excluding bundled games what was the biggest selling Nintendo published game? I have no clue? So let's say Zelda sold 20 million (hypothetically since I have no clue) and the Wii sold 100 million consoles that means 80 million Wii's didn't play that game. And that was the case with about 80 million Wii's. So if 80 million consoles were probably casual gamers who really could care less in the long run.. THAT IS A FAD. The Wii was so trendy and the hype was outrageous at the time. You couldn't go anywhere without someone talking about the Wii. That hyped not only disappeared around Nintendo, but they have sank into a very deep and dark place. To sell 20 million Wii's in a year at it's peak and the Wii U just sold 4 million in a year (sure not peak) but what's that mean the peak will be? 6 million? Compared to the Wii's best.. The Wii WAS a fad. The Wii U is NOT a fad. Thus you are seeing these results.
