January NPD 2019

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Wyrdness said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

What you are saying here is extremely logical.  However, Nintendo did not do the logical thing.  They released Wii Sports Resort and it sold 33m.  They never followed it up with a decent motion control game after that.  In fact, Ubisoft kept releasing these Just Dance games to decent success, showing there was still a market for motion controls, but Nintendo largely gave it up after Wii Sports Resort.

The Blue Ocean Strategy book is subtitled, "How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make The Competition Irrelevant." (emphasis mine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

If you are going to tell me that I don't know what I am talking about, then you yourself should actually know what you are talking about.

Creating an uncontested market space does not mean intentionally not trying to compete with the competition like you're trying to paint the link you posted doesn't back this as it is essentially just saying carve out your own niche even which both companies did if you want to try and argue the book's definition then it contradicts you even more because casuals were already around long before Wii and DS and had many games aimed at them already this goes against the "Untainted by competition" and "Unknown Market Space" part. Under these notions no platform is blue ocean but ofcourse we're not using the exact pure definition in gaming's context here as we're looking more at this part "reconstructing market boundaries" and "focusing on the big picture".

Carving out your own niche is competing by ways of fostering a unique following or approach it's by no means intentionally not competing so no you still haven't debunked anything here. Splatoon is an example of the context of use in gaming as the are many shooters around but none like it meaning it has carved out it's own space with in the genre even though the are many shooters out there competing for fans of the genre, it's niche is uncontested by definition in the genre but it still competes with the competition.

Dude.  Give it up.  You haven't read the book and have no idea what it actually says.  You are just making things worse at this point.