How Sony became king of consoles again

[COKTOE]

curl-6 said:

COKTOE said:

It is relevant. The name "Wii" meant jack shit in the very next gen. Where was all the recognition for the Wii name? Lots of people must have thought the Wii-U sucked. Sucked soooooo hard that it's suckiness, was able to counteract it's strength in the field of placard recognition. As for your personal tastes regarding Wii v PS3, fair enough.

Wii U is not the Wii. The PS Vita was also a spectacular failure despite bearing the Playstation name.

Show people placards of Wii and PS3 in the streets and you'd be lucky if 50% recognized the PS3. But probably 80% would know the Wii from the years where it was everywhere, on TV, at family gatherings, where it was the white hot new thing everyone wanted. And the fact that millions more people owned one than owned a PS3.

The Vita did bear the PS name, but it's failure is a once-off anomaly for the PS brand, with a well documented history of abandonment from Sony to accompany it. Nintendo has shit the bed way more often. Sony, and the PS brand, has a consistent level of excellence, with average console sales that no other platform holder can touch. So, with the Wii brand: If the name can't be parlayed into a successful followup, it's dead. And it IS dead. Long dead. That was the Wii-U. Wii is the Sanjaya Malakar of brands.....That's too harsh. It's the William Hung of brands. And again, speaking of dead, a higher percentage than is the norm, as it concerns  console customers, the ones that helped make the Wii software library so amazing, have faded into the ether.

Last edited by COKTOE - on 05 October 2018