Man The Wii Craze Crashed Hard

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Tachikoma said:

curl-6 said:

"Fads" all spread by people introducing it to others, it's how they become as such. Wii would have been doing 2012 numbers in 2010 if it were truly a fad. The hallmark of a fad is very brief lifespan.  Wii wasn't short-lived, it lasted the normal amount of time for a video game console. Nintendo's systems have pretty much always targeted a 5-6 year lifespan. Wii actually lasted longer than, say, GBA or N64.

Motion controls is the fad, the Wii was a games console, not "motion control", unless you are trying to argue that the Wii had nothing besides motion control to maintain sales.

I still reckon motion controls persisting across multiple platforms 8 years after the release of the Wii precludes them being written off as a  fad, but I reckon at this point we'll just have to agree to disagree. Thanks for keeping it civil, always nice to have a discussion that doesn't devolve into attacks. :)