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Veknoid_Outcast on 04 November 2016
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setsunatenshi said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Are you winding me up?

How was the Wii niche? The GBA? The DS? Even the 3DS?

I would encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and try to experience the world of video games through the eyes of the millions of people who actually love the Wii, and not just "hardcore" gamers who think it was a novelty item.

I personally owned (i guess i still own since I sold off none of them) an NES, N64, Wii, DS and 3DS. As I explained, the Wii was the outlier in terms of hardware sold, but with a shitty attach rate, And you seem to be conflating again home consoles with handhelds, not sure why. Nintendo was always extremely successful in terms of handhelds and personally I believe the Switch should be a quite successful handheld as well.

How is it the outlier? DS sold more. Now attach rate is suddenly the most important data point? Stop moving goal posts.

Why wouldn't I conflate consoles and portables? Most people who play on handhelds play them at home. Portability has relatively little to do with it. It's about software, accessibility, and price. Wii and DS were cheap and easy to understand, and hosted the games people want to play. When Nintendo tries to please both "casual" and "hardcore" fans, as it did with GCN and WiiU, it satisfies neither demographic and fails.