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In a lot of ways you could call any console that has been dominant was a fad ... They're amazingly popular, their popularity is short lived (5 to 10 years), and their popularity is difficult to understand if you're looking at it from an analytical perspective.

Is the Wii more of a fad (or a worse fad) than the NES, SNES, Playstation or PS2? Nope ...