Vizigoth04 said:
Maybe you are trying to say now that your OP was sarcasm and I get that. Innovation such as CD drive, DVD drive or Blu-ray or even cartridge isn't fad. It's experiment with Technology. Using different times of medium to can have different cost and different perks. Sony sold CD/DVD/Blu-ray players separately as well. Those wouldn't be fads either. Just gains in Technology. It seems as though the next gains if you call them that would be Digital Distribution. A fad is a fidget spinner, a yoyo, or bell bottoms. Some come back. Others don't. But CD players don't come back at all. They're obsolete in the entertainment and technology industry. |
Without getting wrapped up in semantics my definition of a fad was different, perhaps wrong even.
Motion controls for the Wii for example was a development in technology much like CD or DVD, but it was also what overwhelmingly sold the Wii to 25 million people a year. People who had never owned a games console prior or since. It's hard to dispute that because what else sold the Wii to that many people? Take motion controls away and you're left with a Gamecube in another box, it would have flopped hard. Now to be straight, I don't think the PS1 and 2 sold because of CD's and DVD's, but apparently some think they did. And that being the case DVD's would be (my definition) of a fad. Perhaps the wrong word to use, maybe 'selling point' would have been more accurate. The technology itself isn't the fad, it's the novelty that it created that is the fad.
