Because it wasn’t cool.
The rhetoric of Nintendo catering only to children is now so ingrained that Wii ‘winning’ the generation causes cognitive dissonance for ‘hardcore’ gamers.
By discounting the Wii, two opposing mindsets may be adopted:
“Games are cool and mature.”
“The Wii is for kids, but adults played it.”
Because the adults that played the Wii don’t count; they were soccer moms and grandparents, not ‘hardcore’ gamers.
The truth is that games are childish by nature. People confuse ‘adult’ games as being mature. But it is only the content of the game that is mature; playing a game is still childish.
Ironically, the desire to be seen as mature is childish. True maturity is not caring.
The Wii was an amazing console. Family members that would usually complain about anyone using electronics at a family function were now the first to fire up the Wii for some bowling. I played with so many people I never thought possible beforehand.
The Wii changed the image of gaming to something that everyone could enjoy and it was no longer cool to ‘hardcore’ gamers.
