Lately we've seen the number of Wii doubters decreasing, but there are still a lot of bloggers, journalists, "analysts" and supposeldy "industry knowledgeable" professionals who treat the Wii as the cheap toy fad which will soon be forgotten by everyone except Nintendo.

Personally, this greatly amuses me and makes each week of Nintendo domination in sales taste better. You gotta love it when so many forum members here have been outsmarting those so called experts at predicting where the winds blow during this generation of consoles.

Here's to a bunch of more "the Wii is doomed" articles!

You just jinxed the Wii. =(

those are just guys that are fighting for their own consoles which are either ps3 or 360. it's sad for them! (look how the wii outsold both the ps3 and 360 combined last week!? AMAZING!!!!

It took years before 'professionals' decided that Apple was for real and the iPod wasn't a fleeting fad. If I only had a dollar for every time somebody said the iPod was inferior to some other music player and eventually Apple would be unable to keep selling iPods at a huge profit.

Hey they have a point, right? When Nintendo releases the next console in 5 years and Sony continues with its 10 year plan, the analysts will say "See, we were right. The Wii is a fad."

But I still have my Nintendo stock

 10 years?

I would bet a permaban that it won't happen. 

I'm not superstitious ;)

I think the reason for this disparity -- in both the video game and consumer electronics world -- is that the people who actively seek to become "industry experts" or "professional analysts" in these fields will naturally have a particular affinity for cutting edge technology, with new features and such. They get in to the field because they enjoy technology so much.

For both Nintendo and Apple, the goal isn't really to produce new, cutting edge techology, it's to take existing technology and make it more user friendly, giving it a slightly new and more appealing twist. For tech heads, accessability is an almost entirely unappreciated quality. 

I doubt the PS3 will last 10 years in the popular marketplace, simply because it has nothing compelling interface-wise to offer over a current competitor, and won't have anything compelling interface-wise to offer over future competitors either. Sony could probably get away with producing the system for that long and get some amount of sales, but as for the system ever really "taking off" the way the PS2 did, the odds are slim to none.

Predicting a fad is a notoriously hard thing to do anyway. Unless you can accurately gauge the staying power of a product, you can't really say when its popularity will fade. So I can show a little sympathy towards the people who are still anti-Wii, if only because they're still struggling with how strong its appeal really is. Not that we're really much more capable, though we do have the upper hand of pretty-darn-accurate week-by-week sales predictions (which most of these authors lack).