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Biggerboat1 on 24 February 2019
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Biggerboat1 said:

 A craze or a fad can end though, just look at Wii to Wii U...

Motion controls were once much more popular than they are now, tastes change, and the hot new thing gets cold & old - it's not a constant.

That would explain why those numbers didn't carry over to XB1 & Wii U. The fact that this trend away from motion controls happened across both Nintendo & Microsoft only lends support to this conclusion!

I don't believe anyone is arguing that Kinnect stayed popular, just that it was popular for a time and in that time it helped sell some consoles - seems reasonable enough to me...

I don't follow you.  How did the craze end going from Wii to Wii U? 

For all we know the Wii motion control craze might have kept going.  We'll never know, because Nintendo never made motion control games on the Wii U like, say a Wii Sports Resort 2.  If the "craze" ended then it was because Nintendo killed it.  It wasn't because the customers got disinterested, because they were never given that chance.  They never gave motion controls a shot on the Wii U.  The controllers were there, but the games were not.

On the other hand Microsoft really did try to make Kinect the main focus of the XB1, because they bundled it with the XB1.  Nintendo instead bundled the Wii U gamepad, a different direction entirely.  Microsoft was trying to stick with motion controls.

I'm gonna own up here and admit I wasn't fully aware how little motion-based games were released for Wii U. I took one look at the thing when it was announced and knew that it wasn't for me. It makes that choice of name even more bewildering.

Regardless, Nintendo didn't move away from motion controls because they didn't like to make money or want sell another 100+ million consoles. The sharp drop-off in Wii sales and presumably, other metrics, must have made it apparent to them that an HD Wii wasn't gonna make it rain twice in a row. So I think the idea that motion controls could still be enjoying the popularity they had back then is stretching it somewhat...