Yeah, they did, good for them. Like all fads, they are exploding and taking over the world one day, then back to being a small niche the next.
Ahahaha, "fads." Quite a fad Nintendo had there, eh? Lasted a long, long time for a fad. Was a success with a large group of former non-gamers who've now moved to the Kinect for more "fad" goodness, too!
Back to reality: Nintendo has done almost nothing to support the Wii for a long time. They're focusing on the 3DS and on Wii U development. This is something that happens at the end of every single hardware generation: you stop pushing the old console and start focusing on the new ones. The lack of third-party support since... ever, that sure hasn't helped, either.
On top of that, Nintendo took a deliberate gamble making the Wii standard definition and it paid off, but only to a point. Eventually HD penetration was so high that the Wii started looking less attractive than the competition, especially the Kinect. Some say Nintendo made a mistake, but those obscenely large piles of cash disagree. They made a deliberate choice with the Wii's SD tech, and now we're seeing the consequences of that choice.
Of course, for someone like you, the Wii dropping in sales at
any point ever is proof of a "truth" you want badly to believe: nobody cares anymore about this thing you don't like (motion controlled gaming), and they never really did, and soon the industry will start giving you more of what you think you're entitled to.
How do you know the Wii U won't be a success? You "knew" the Wii was going to be destroyed in sales. But it didn't, did it? You were mad about that. Mad that developers spent time and money and other resources developing games with controls schemes you didn't and don't like. And now you think things will return to "normal" next generation. I can hardly wait to read the whiny posts from people like you when that doesn't happen.
And man, at least
try to hide your fanboy bias. You're all fine with Kinect being successful, but you're dripping with venom about Nintendo's motion control future? Please.
It's not like I'm crying about it, I'm quite happy motion controls are being relegated to the backwaters that they belong in.
Oh I think maybe you're tearing up just a little bit.
Bitter tears from the delusional and entitled: once again, the most entertaining thing about this gen.
My point is why fix what's not broken. If the motion controls don't transcend the experience, why shoe-horn them in?
RE4 was already perfect with analog sticks.
And somehow,
this is the most pathetic post in the thread yet.