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Originally Posted by Russic
Except that the wii is a video game system, something that's been around since the early 80's. A better comparison would have been to the original NES. I believe the article is talking about new products that exist in a category of their own.
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Well, that's not what it said in the article but assuming that's the point the author was attempting to make... Is the iPad really in a category of its own? It's a tablet PC and depending on how you define that category, they've been around for a decade or more before the iPad's release.
Before someone makes the argument that the iPad has some minor feature that's a complete game changer that propels it into a class of it's own, you could make the same argument for the Wii with its revolutionary controller design.
All that aside... even if you want to look at NES numbers: When it was originally released under the name Famicom in Japan it sold 500,000 units in the first 2 months and about 2.5 million in approx the first year and a half (in the Japanese market alone).
Anyway you slice it, the figures and claims in this article are very suspect.