Bet: PS4 won't sell under 180k any week in 2015

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Player2 said:

Imnus said:

Player2 said:

 

The Wii is called a fad despite being up YoY in its first year so I don't see why a console that is struggling to be flat YoY can't, unless term coiners decide to show their true colors and add a "it's only a fad if Nintendo makes it" clause.

What that have to do with being a fad? A fad is explosive in it's grow and equally explosive it's its rapid implosion, while failing to set an standard, like the Wii. That's all there is to it pretty much. Have the Wii had a softer decline or successfully stablished motion controls at least for Nintendo consoles, then it wouldn't be a fad but it indeed was a fad.

I don't see how going from best launch ever and supply constrained to worse sales than any home console last gen in a year doesn't qualify.

You could say that the record breaking rate of sales was a fad. But PS4 is not a fad, yet. It's still the market leader by a huge margin, so it can only be a fad if it suddenly becomes the worst selling console of the generation, like Wii did (yearly not LTD). You can't judge an entire generation like this in the space of 18 months. And calling the generaton leader a fad when it is well on the way to 50% market share is nonsense.