I know about fallicious arguments...I took a course in rhetoric. This case is VERY different than that. If I were to say the sun is purple, and everyone else said it was purple, THEN it would be argumentum ad populum. This is because completely untrue, and provably so, yet it's made out to be true because a lot of people say so.

The situation with the Wii "collecting dust" is not argumentum ad populum has no one has ever stated that "because my Wii collects dust, that must mean everyone's Wii collects dust". It's merely an anecdote that many people have shared, especially because it's a personal experience, not something that affects everyone else. 

My PS2 is literally on a shelf collecting dust because that's where it's at, and I don't play it anymore. That's how it is for me. Is that a fallacy, somehow then? You may not want to believe it, but that's how it is for me, and with many other people's PS2. Same with the Wii. Therefore "collecting dust" is NOT a myth, and the statement is NOT argumentum ad populum because I and many other share this same particular sentiment.

You just got so up in arms because you believe that everyone in fact DOES play their Wii and NO Wii collects dust. THAT'S a fallicious argument, because just because everyone on here gets tired of people saying "collecting dust" to try and seem, I don't know, unbiased, that must mean everyone in the world with a Wii must play it all the time. 

I think my critical thinking skills are as sharp as a needle, thank you very much

So...it's still not a "myth" because it does happen for many people. That's all I was trying to say. 

Unless you're saying that these 99% hardcore gamers that generally don't get along with the Wii...actually play it?

I never said that people who own Wii's don't play it. That's just retarded. I was simply replying to the statement that "collecting dust" was a "myth"...yet many people have said that that's the case for them. Are these people lying? As long as one person in the world, out of the 70M owners, has his "Wii on a shelf collecting dust", then it's a true statement...cause that's what that person has done with his/her personal property. And that's what others have stated. Sure, it's an overused phrase....doesn't mean it doesn't happen though.

You must be getting rusty. You were doing pretty good until you deployed the strawman.

Yeah, okay. If your position is that somewhere in the world there are Wiis that aren't being used, that's perfectly defensible. It's also completely unremarkable and applies to every other gadget on the market. My mistake for taking your comment to suggest that disuse is a major problem for the Wii, just because some people say so, and in the face of evidence that it's still selling more software than any other console on the market.

I'll spare you my PS3 anecdotes.

Nintendo console owners a lazy asses. They can't be bother to even dusting their shit.

Yeah, the old one is kind of out of date.

I find it interesting that everybody talks about how the Wii in particular collects dust. What, you think that everybody who got a 360 in 2005 still plays it? That the folks who got the PS3 as a cheap Blueray player by every new release? That the latest 3rd party DS release was a flop because not everybody whose bought the system since 2004 bought it?

Wiis collect dust. So does every other system. The only reason the PS3 and 360 escape this sort of criticism is that the first only reached an acceptable pricepoint three years after launch and the second only just escaped the spectre of hardware failures.

Nothing they said was wrong. I agree with everything Ready at Dawn have said.

Well I have to wipe down all three of my consoles on occasion cause they all collect dust.  Lol...just trying to make a joke.  I think I failed hard!!

Lol...thanks :).