Why Does Wii Really Get A Bad Rap?

[Nuvendil]

Aeolus451 said:

Nuvendil said:

The Wii had many reasons for success and subsequent drop off.  Sony had absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to do with it in any capacity.  

Sony's PS3 had everything to do with why the wii sold what it did. The only time nintendo's home consoles managed to sell 100 mil is when sony dropped the ball with the PS3. Sony's home consoles tend to be the market leader by far and what do you think happens when it screws up ? The sales go somewhere. Both MS and Nintendo's home consoles in that gen managed to do the best they ever did in that market ever and yet, it has nothing to do with sony?

Corelation does not equal causation.  Microsoft benefited, they were producing an exceptionally similar product.  Nintendo did not, they sidestepped MS and Sony in their entirety.  If Sony had done better, MS would have suffered, Nintendo not so much.  

Also, you are talking about the sales the PS2 got going somewhere.  But the sales of Gen 7 vastly eclipse Gen 6.  260+ million vs less than 200 million.  So the 7th gen totalled out with over 60 million additional sales.  That's where the Wii got its numbers. New customers, second console sales.  Not sales taken from Playstation.  MS got those.