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Soundwave on 21 January 2017
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

Success in this industry snowballs. So when things go good ... things go *really* good in this business. 

The Wii U had NSMBU and Smash Bros. and Mario Kart and Wii Fit/Party/Sports even as well. And it was cheaper than a PS4 or XB1 as well. 

That sold like shit. 

Wii is just an outlier to be honest. There's never been a console that had the metoric rise it did, followed by the equally fast meteroic crash that it had. It's a unique situation, it likely will never happen again. 

The market in 2006-2010 was vastly different to the market of 2012 onwards. You can't expect the same strategy to pay off in totally different market situations, that's like expecting a boat to work just as well on land as in the water. Wii was a good read of the market of the mid 2000s, Wii U was a very poor read of the market of the early to mid 2010s.

Yeah it'll never happen again. Even just for novelty people had been using phyiscal buttons for like 30 years, so the initial senstation of using movement for control was completely mind blowing and went againt 30 years of established "rules". 

But today? Meh. Sony has motion controllers. Your phone has motion controllers. The Xbox had a motion camera. Tablets have motion sensors. The Apple TV has motion controls. I think there was a push for a little while for TV remotes to have motion before as well but most manufacturers have kinda backed away from that and just gone back to regular old buttons on remotes.