We can agree that the Wii was an outlier, right?
In a sense yes. But it was still a console just like the Gamecube before and the Wii U after.
The Wii had a casual audience which I would say was the majority of owners. But it also had a core gaming audience and a semi casual gaming audience. In fact data showed a while back that a number of people who owned the Wii also went out to buy a PS3 or 360.
The PS2 also had a casual audience as well and sold 155 million units (50m more than the Wii) thanks to the DVD player and family friendly casual games. But it also had a large core gamer following as well.
Now I'm not saying the PS2 was a casual console. Far from it.
But to say the Wii doesn't count or is an outlier or shouldn't be considered last gen is a bit of a out there thing to say in my opinion. Especially when you consider that core Nintendo titles such as NSMBW & Mario Kart 7 exceeded 28 million each.
Again, using the iPhone example. It's like saying the iPhone back in 2007 was an outlier and shouldn't be counted because a core smartphone user back then was a Blackberry or Windows Phone business user and an iPhone user was more likely to be a casual consumer. Yes I know it's slightly different and not the best example to use but it's an example of how the smartphone market saw something different with the iPhone and others copied and the same with the gaming market where the Wii was different and others copied (Kinect/Move)
Nope. Why do you assume this post was directed at you? You're not the one saying this gen's lower sales than last gen has some sort of meaning. But others have. And it's nonsense. The only meaning it has is that Nintendo's console demographic they conjured up with the Wii is gone. But the normal console market is still there.
Ah ok. Just because people said the same stuff to me in the past.
I wouldn't say Nintendo Wii market has gone, it's moved to mobile and internet games mostly but there is still a lot of Nintendo's base on the Wii who could and have/will move over to PS4/X1,