| midrange said: @ freebs2 The DS was well done and definitely a hardware improvement over the gameboy advance sp. The wii however was popular due to its fad, not through having good games, although wii sports was critical in pushing the fad. This is evident in the fact that the wii lagged behind in sales last gen. Meanwhile the ps3 has caught up to 4/5 of wii sales and is actually still alive |
That is a very simplified way to see things. The Wii lasted shorter but had phenomenal sales because it was a demand pull kind of innovation (motion control in order to make accessible games). Demand pull products are physiologically prone to have a great start but last shorter, X360 and Ps3 were a tecnological push kind of innovation (High definition as a new standard fo visual fidelity). When you make a tecnological push product it's natural to have a slow start but getting momentum in the long run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_push
Also we could argue, Ps3/360 were still doing good in 2013 because they were still making games for it, while Nintendo guiltily dropped Wii support after 2010 in favour of the new systems (3DS and WiiU). As I noted in the OP, Just Dance 2015 (released 6 months ago) has still sold 1.72m on a consoles that was basically dead 4 years ago.
