curl-6 said:
colafitte said:
The term "win" is subjective always. If you don't establish specific conditions or rules to "win" a game, there will always be different points of view. If you consider only hardware sales, Wii won, if you consider profits from hardware sales, Wii won....BUT if you consider the number of games in each platform, the number of sales from software for each platform, the amount of 80+ rating games in each platform, the PS3 wins too.
From my point of view, you could say Disney considers Marvel Infinity War wins the best movie of the year because it had the best earnings, but i'm pretty confident that most of the critics or people that value or rate professionaly a film won't consider it never the best just because a film did the best at the box office (and they shoudn't not give the best film just because it was the best seller either).
There's been a lot of successful things in the past that were the hottest thing during a period of time, and then, years past, and people just changed their opinion or eveng forgot them completely. Being succesful financially doesn't always mean that something will be more valuable in the long run.
In your case, Wii was and is still a fantastic console that you enjoyed a lot, but you can use that to think that in 2018, most people will celebrate more the Wii against PS3 because, believe me, first, people have really "bad memory" and second, social perception always changes and people often value a thing just beacuse other tells them to do it.
In my opinion, PS3 brand ended its run in 2013 with a far better shape and consumers recognition that Wii did in 2012. There must be a reason why Wii sales plummeted during 2011 and 2012 with WiiU continuing that drop in the next years while PS3 ended being the number 1 home console during those last years of that gen and then PS4 continuing that position of dominance later with the next gen. I think everyone knows the reason why, even if they don't want to admit it...
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The winner of a generation is and always has been the system that sells the most. In the case of the Wii though, many the self-described "hardcore" couldn't (and still can't) handle the idea of a "casual" Nintendo console beating a "hardcore" Playstation one, and thus manufactured a labyrinth of contrived narratives to try to argue that it somehow magically doesn't count.
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Pyrrhus of Epirus won his battle against Rome back then too, but there's a reason why, more than 2000 years later we remember him more for the phrase "pyrrhic victory", which the meaning is "Someone who wins that takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement". Wii won many battles in their first years, yes, but the brand ultimately lost the war in the end, and Nintendo suffered for years because of that.
Some people consider that a competition is not about how it begins, but how it ends, and those people will never consider the Wii a winner, no matter how much Wii sold against the PS3 or another console, so the "winner of the generation" is not and never was, just the system that sold the most. The only undisputable fact is that Wii sold the most, that's it. And because there's no official way to give the award of "winner" to one or another, what's only left is cultural perception and personal valoration, and I repeat, you can't trust on the first one. In my case, I don't think Wii consumers remember that console as fondly as PS3 consumers remember their own, but ey, it's just my opinion.
