| Smashchu2 said: The bolds You just described a disruption. A disruption is always bad compaired to the incumbent. Sony would see the 3DS as "crappy 3D." The 3D on the 3DS will get better. You are totally wrong about the second part, and this is why you do not get disruption. Disruption is a value innovation. Disruptors work in that they have new values, namely a asymetric motivation and an asymetric skill. This is also why Christiansen calls them "Disruptive Innovation," verses a "Disruptive Technology," after his first book. Nintendo's 3D will only be absorbed if they lack the skill and the motivation. The 3DS is disruptive. There is no doubt about it. Look at the very end of Nintendo's press conferense and how many times they say "No more glasses," and the begining of Sony's Press Conference where they talk about the "true 3D experience." Here is a video to prove my point. Listen to how he hates current 3D and likes the new one. |
The point is that the parallax barrier technology, right now, is very limted in its applications and will be useless as a home theater solution for several years. After that, if it isn't a technological dead end and it gets better enough to be used on a big screen for mltiple viewers, it will be a competing tech for other 3d big display techs. This has little to do with the PS3, that will display its 3D games and BluRay movies on whatever TV it is connected to, including a glassless parallax barrier 2012 model.
Sony will either adopt the new tech or fight it if they have any stake on a competing tech, but it's about the screens, not the consoles. In some ways, the 3DS bringing more limelight on 3D gaming and 3D displays could even work as a benefit for Sony, because the sooner a new expensive TV set can be built by buying a glassless display from the same providers Nintendo uses, the sooner Sony can bring out a new generation of TVs.
Again: the PS3 is not tied to the current glass-needing displays. Sony is not tied to the current display technology for their TVs. Nintendo did not invent the glassless displays, nor they will be their sole users, nor will they develop any special skillset on it that is not technology-agnostic. Please explain how the 3DS is disruptive of Sony's 3D push for home theaters today, including the PS3.
Rephrase it as "3DS is an adopter of a technolgy that poses a disruption threat to the current big 3D screens tech" and I will agree.
