Ka-pi96 said:
Accurate? Not really. Although we can make assumptions based on the sales, PS3 and Xbox 360 continued selling for a much longer period and game sales stayed high throughout the gen. Wii sold really well to start with but dropped off massively, same with Wii game sales.
That doesn't conclusively prove anything but it does suggest there were many more casuals that bought a Wii than a PS3 or Xbox 360 and simply lost interest as the years went on, as casuals would do.
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You need to look at why the PS3 and 360 continued to sell after the Wii finally started dropping off. The answer is in the software support. Nintendo pretty much abandoned the Wii during 2011 (It still sold over 11.5 Million units this Year) to focus on the release of Wii U in 2012 and the early struggles we saw from 3DS.
With no Nintendo support, the Wii was doomed to have a quick death as the 3rd party efforts on the machine simply werent good enough or frequent enough to keep it afloat for X Years.
There is no denying that the Wii thrived due to the expanded market of gamers, but to try exclude the Wii from any comparisons just because of the success they had is simply wrong, especially when you look at what Sony and Microsoft both did to get in on the action to expand the life of their respective consoles.
Teeqoz said:
Nobody's saying that it's a lesser console, but that if you want to know the actual size of the console market, and how stuff is selling compared to the size of the console market, then the Wii will make your numbers skewed because a lot of the Wii buyers won't ever buy another console.
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The size of the market was expanded thanks to Nintendos efforts.
Sony and Microsoft both jumped on board and got boosts from it with Move and Kinect. The main problem we are seeing now with that market disappearing is because they arent being supported in a meaningful way and havent been since Gen 8 was actually announced with Wii U in mid-2011.