DonFerrari on 04 July 2014
jlmurph2 said:
DonFerrari said:
Chasesdaddy84 said:
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.
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Man if your definition of fad goes through console selling 100 million and a top IP of it selling 20M being unbundled than all consoles (besides the dead ones) are fads because PS2 sold 160M and GTA sold 30M or less, the best exclusive sold less than 15M and most of Sony 1st party IPs sell less than 5M.
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Yeah that wasn't a good example at all considering used games can't possibly be counted.
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General SW sales should be considered to measure the sucess of a console, but saying a IP selling to less than 30% of the base make the console a fad is strange.
On the fad side I would say that taking out the heavily bundled SW on Wii (like WiiSports) it probably would already be 3rd in SW total sales with 100M base against 80M. But that have nothing to do with being fad just with the ratio of sw, and that was a strong suite of X360 and seems will be strong on X1 as well.
