The Wiis success, a cautionary tale for Sonys Ps4

Sony technically already had their cautionary tale when they transitioned from the PS2 to the PS3.

There are still constant highly rated games coming out for the PS4 every month....Wii was shovel ware with one or two good titles a year

and its also the best hardware of current consoles where the Wii was far weaker

You can't compare the Wii's success with the PS4.

Bunk Premise as stated by 99% of the posters here.

Wii's success had a lot to do with it's popularity among non gamers, it was a craze. And like all crazes, it fizzed out. Pogs, Rubiks Cube, whatever. Here today gone tomorrow.

And I've said it before I'll say it again, this did contribute greatly to the failure of the wii u. The Wii largely abandoned a lot of the gaming community in favour of casuals who enjoy mini game collections. When Nintendo no longer had these people, it was left in dire straits. Only the ultra die hards bought the wii u, probably fearing much the same. Small library, no third party, droughts of months at a time. How wrong they were. (LOL)

PS4 won on a gamer ticket. It gained huge momentum at an E3 where MS dropped the ball over it's always online system. It's not remotely the same. It's the most popular system with the most long term of the gaming community supporting it.

Popularity is about the only thing they have in common. Wii only had a small amount of quality exclusives while the PS4 will have a shit ton more, and a healthy amount of quality multiplats. PS4 is the best console to come along in a very long time.

@killonsight: Wat? It has no resemblance to the Wii. The Wii was a phenomenon because Wii Sports was a genius title at selling waggle as a real input method.

You must be young or have a short memory. The Ps4 is more like the first two PlayStations. I think they have plenty of history to fall back on.