Mnementh said:
Wyrdness said:
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.
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Well, I posted the graphs with the Nintendo-share in a follow-up-post. Nintendo shares were on the constant rise before the release of the Wii. Obviously strock traders had interest in Nintendo and were trusting in it's future. Whatever the reason, this means the development of share prices after launch of Wii and after launch of Switch aren't that comparable.
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No they were on the rise because of the DS you've got that mistaken, Wii didn't have high expeactations to the point people thought it would be the last home console from Nintendo especially after the 2 year drought that the GC had in its last 2 years.
