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colafitte on 05 October 2018
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curl-6 said:
colafitte said:

Ok, but i will tell you back that Nintendo didn't went as full moron as Sony during 2005-2007 era and still PS3 survived and still sold at a better rate than X360 , and it was the same console, the same concept as it started in 2006 (just cheaper, i will admit that). Wii went from selling (according to this site), 24M in 2008, 21M in 2009, 17M in 2010, and then just 11M in 2011 and only 5M in 2012. Even if we sum WiiU sales since 2012, Wii+WiiU only sold 18M combined since 2012. So the brand "Wii" (wii + wiiU) went from selling 24M in just a year to sell around 33M total from 2011-2017. 

What I take from that is that Wii became an undesired product, and no winner shoul be cosidered like that when their competition is still active. NES and SNES were not surpassed in the end by Sega, PS1 and PS2 were never surpassed by N64, GC or Xbox, and PS4 is not going to be surpassed ever by XBO, and even less by the difference X360 and PS3 won against Wii during 2011-2013.

Nintendo left Wii high and dry nearly two years before its replacement in order to move their teams over to the 3DS and Wii U. It essentially only got 4 years of proper support. Yet it still outsold PS3 and 360 which had the luxury of being supported for twice as long. PS3/360 had 4 years to play catchup and still couldn't make it within spitting distance.

Those are some valid reasons (even if i not completely agree on them), but if you were in my place you would consider those reasons as excuses. if Wii only had 4 years, that's only Nintendo's fault, for not developing games of their own and not having support for 3rd parties. If Wii did not had support because of WiiU, why WiiU was a failure then? if the only reason was that Nintendo was occupied developing for Wii U during, according to you, 2 years, why WiiU did not beat PS3 and X360 in sales in 2012 and 2013 then? (in fact it only beat barely PS3 in 2014 after PS4 launch) And no, PS3/360 did not have 3 years of catch up, PS4 and XBO launched in 2013, just a year after WiiU, remember? and if Nintendo had to put resources on WiiU, Sony, Microsoft and the 3rd parties had to do it too. 

Wii as a console ended being undesired even by Nintendo itself. The only reason the Wii was a success was because Nintendo as a software company, not because the console itself was great. Like you said, the moment Nintendo stopped caring for the Wii, the sales plummeted. But i'm going to say you something more. Nintendo stopped caring for the Wii because they knew from 2010 that PS3/360 were starting to be more popular and Wii could not compete with them. And if you are in that position..., i don't think you can say to youself that you're "winning"...