| Mnementh said: Don't get this from gaming forums. People outside gaming were buzzing about Wii. And that actually made it successful. |
They weren't mate I remember clearly Wii was seen a final swan song by many because the gaming industry as a whole still couldn't grasp the concept of the blue ocean approach and the massive power gap between the Wii and the competition made people even more convinced of it. Why do you think media outlets like Gamespot got humbled when Wii did well? They even had an April fools article that mocked the Wii which backfired harder than Polygon's Mario Kart 8 prediction. This is why the platform literally only had 2 major companies supporting it at launch (Ubisoft and Sega) and when it launched the gaming industry were calling the Wii a fad that will stop selling after a few months, expectations weren't high for it like you say.
It's only after a year and a half when the industry got force to swallow that the blue ocean approach actually works and that the platform wasn't a fad. The Buzz only really started with in the launch window when new gamers began buying the platform to try it out and word of mouth lead to more new gamers buying it.
