It's a fad because it only lasted one generation. Nintendo has pretty much failed to increase its core audience with Wii, so the 79 million people whodidn't buy GC but did buy Wii have gone back into the woodwork, and maybe some have switched to PS / XB but not many, if any. The whole blue ocean thing was the fad really.

This.

Lol an article on vgc created from the comment of a regular poster on gaf.

I wonder if whoever wrote it stalks this guy knowing his history and waits for him to say something inflammatory about MS or Ninty so they can get some hits with a flamebait article. Resourceful, if nothing else.

Motion controls were a fad, and it's sold the wii to the masses, now motion controls are irrelevant, putting Nintendo in a very bad position in the console market and it's the main reason wiiu is in trouble, people just don't want or care for the it's successor, while xbox1 and PlayStation 4 show a different story, x1 being at 500$ and over priced is selling great for a 500$ console, and ps4 is just doing amazing and it's not because of the games they have, it's because people actually want the ps3 and 360 successors, unlike the wii which just shows that it was a true fad, from 100 million, to being irrelevant to consumers, third party, and the industry as a whole