Jumpin said:
E3 2011 was about a year and a half before the Wii U launch and isn’t relevant. The people who were wondering what it was found out soon after. I wouldn’t be so credulous to believe that anecdote that sounds so absurd when applying even the most basic reasoning; for example, you can ask these questions: Why would someone buy a gaming console for a friend that not only doesn’t want it, but has never heard of it? How could the person see that box, feel its weight, and not know what it was? Who gets an expensive gift and considers it an accessory to put in the closet? The point is, the mass confusion you’re claiming didn’t happen—at least not any time close to the console’s launch, let alone for the entire generation. Again, we’re human beings, not capuchin monkeys… but as has been pointed out, there are flat earthers :D |
The point is that if even proper gamers had trouble figuring out what it was then people who don't know much about video games are gonna have a much harder time. Look at Kakadu being confused by it back then and he'll have been more in tune with video games back then than the average person so it was very much a confusing product for the masses.
It's not an absurd scenario. Obviously cause the person had a Wii so thought he'd want the successor, they thought it was a heavy accessory and never got around to selling it so it just stayed there. You're putting far too much faith in the average person. A LOT of people aren't gonna do even a minute of research for stuff like this and judge completely based on initial impression. Things like scams wouldn't be so common if loads of people weren't falling for stuff every year that even basic research would show is bullshit. Someone not doing any research on an expensive gift they received to know for sure what it is is dumb but people are often dumb.
Last edited by Norion - on 05 September 2023
