Shadow1980 said:
"The Wii sold primarily to casuals" is perhaps the most persistent myth in gaming over the past decade. There's plenty of evidence suggesting that a majority of Wii owners were so-called "core" gamers. That's not to say there wasn't a non-trivial periphery demographic of people who don't normally buy consoles, but rather that said demographic was not the bulk of the Wii's audience. At best, they maybe make up a third of all Wii owners in the West. |
The fact that a lot current PS4 and XBone users hade a Wii does not mean it catered to that specific market. Most of them bought it for party/motion control games. Wii-U's low sales that continue the trend of ever lower sales for Nintendo consoles proves this, and it proves that three systems can't trive in the core console market.
