Player2 said:
Imnus said:
Player2 said:
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.
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What are you talking about? The PS4?
It's selling almost a million a month in the slow months in it's second year on the market at $400. It's also gonna be up YoY, how is that imploding?
I think you still don't understand what a fad is. Your premise is that "The Wii is called a fad despite being up YoY in its first year", as if you think it's not a fad because it grew YoY, right? It's actually the opposite, it wouldn't have been a fad if it had gone down YoY, since that just means it didn't catch on. For something to be qualified as a fad it have to get rapid and massive mainstream market attention first, and it's decline massive and fast as well.
For example have the PS1 declined fast and hard it would have been a fad, but it didn't, it sold over 10 years, it's success was fast and massive specially for those times, but it's decline was slow and steady. Also it established a standard in the console market, today the PS4 and XOne are evolutions of that standard, on the other hand not even the Wii U followed on the Wii steps.
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I'm talking about the PS4 having similar sales to the PS3 in the same timeframe.
There are plenty of fads that barely lasted a year or less like Tamagotchi or Pet Rocks that obviously weren't up YoY. The PS4 could be one of them.
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Timeframe on its own is not that important for determining if something is a fad, of course it should be relatively short. Relative meaning compared to similar products.
Also there's no way Tamagotchis were down YoY after only their 1st year, so they certainly lasted more than a year. I don't even know what a Pet Rocks, so I've no idea if they were successful enough to even be considered a fad.
