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You know what else was a fad...I mean cultural phenomenon? The Wii. This is great for gaming. Fortnite has driven twitch viewers to crazy new heights and whil
by purple-again 8y ago
You know what else was a fad...I mean cultural phenomenon? The Wii.
This is great for gaming. Fortnite has driven twitch viewers to crazy new heights and while most of them will never come back (check wii sales against the most popular game franchises on the Wii’s sales) some percentage will have found their new thing and the ecosystem will be stronger for having weathered the crashing wave.
- bsder 8y ago> You know what else was a fad...I mean cultural phenomenon? The Wii. You do know that the Wii actually "won" it's generation in terms of unit sales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_million-selling_game_consoles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_million-selling_game_c... And the Switch is now closing in on the Xbone... Not exactly what I would call a "fad".
- purple-again 8y agoGameCube 22 million units sold. Wii 101 million units sold. WiiU 13 million units sold. So...what exactly would you call a fad?
- penagwin 8y agoI'd also say it's not a fad if it was superseded like this. It's not that the wii lost favor, it's generation became out of date, and nintendo was betting on people buying it's new product. Fads usually have an illogical, social reason for their popularity, not a direct spec to spec comparison (Playstation pro beats the wii in popularity at this time (2018)- well duh!) The wii was popular for many reasons, and I'm sure it became "popular" to buy one, but it didn't lose to a social hype dying down, it lost to a new generation of consoles (and it's successor didn't do well in comparison to those)
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