I actully agree the 'Project Cafe' is going to fail for the same reasons Nintendos' other consoles failed (excluding the Wii).... however i think Nintendo have learned from the past and they have a plan. i've read a rumour recently that claims Nintendo are planning to do 3D without glassess and without a 3D tv.

i dont know much about this tech, but i know that currently Sony and LG, etc are all focusing on sterostopic 3D, there are probabily other ways of doing 3D. maybe Nintendo have discovered a way of doing 3D on the cheap in which case they will corner the market again!

Pos	Game	Americas	Japan	EMEAA	Worldwide
1	New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Nintendo, Platform	9.83	6.31	9.32	25.47
2	New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) Nintendo, Platform	11.16	4.29	6.20	21.65

Pos	Game	Americas	Japan	EMEAA	Worldwide
1	Call of Duty: Black Ops (X360) Activision, FPS	8.70	0.05	3.50	12.26
2	Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3) Activision, FPS	5.37	0.28	4.21	9.86
3	Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC) Activision, FPS	0.48	0.00	0.62	1.10
4	Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wii) Activision, FPS	0.59	0.00	0.32	0.92
5	Call of Duty: Black Ops (DS) Activision, FPS	0.24	0.00	0.01	0.25
Total	15.39	0.34	8.66	24.38

Wrong :P

Malstrom is really good when it comes to describing disruptive technologies and the blue ocean strategy. And he has a deep understanding of them. He was consistently wrong about politics and I think he's reading too much into Nintendo's actions right now. Once he leaves the field of disruptive products / blue ocean strategy he isn't much better than most people at predicting things. Everyone who understands these books would be able to make such predictions and tell why Nintendo was successful with the Wii and DS.

Here's a fun fact: In his book Clayton Christensen describes why established companies like Nintendo could eventually get into trouble when they try to introduce disruptive technologies and why they could get off track. It fills a whole chapter of the book. Why doesn't Malstrom write about that? It's really interesting because Nintendo is a special case. And it would be great fun to argue about it since different people might come to different conclusions. (Especially Malstrom since it would contradict his "3D obsession" observation).

if you combine all the realeses we have the following:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=black ops

PS3 9.86 million worldwide

XB3 - 12.26 million worldwide

Wii - 1million worldwide

PC - 1 million worldwide

DS - 0.25 million worldwide

so we have about 24 million as opposed to 21 million for New super Mario bros Wii

Now if he meant the DS NSMB game, then not at all, it sits at 25 million (O.O)

or combined at 50 million!!!

Edit: Savior beat me to it :P

Other M is creepy. I watched the story cutscenes on youtube. It freaked the shit out of me. It's disturbing in multiple ways...

So much of this industry is about relative position, momentum, and thus partially luck. The Wii is unique in that it had to really fight for its position in the market, but most trends are more self-sustaining than that. The PS2's victory, as i've postulated in the past, was a product of market forces bigger than Sony planned, and partly an issue of them releasing at exactly the right time

I think in part Nintendo's taking note of how easily even a total loser in the market like the PS3 (total loser part applying to the first couple years) can get sustaining third party support just by positioning their device properly, and Nintendo's probably capitalizing on that. A smart idea, because as long as doing that doesn't price you out of the mainstream, then you've got all your vanilla FPS/TPS/Adventure stuff covered, and Nintendo can be free to be Nintendo and thus create a fully rounded-out software environment the likes of which hasn't been seen in a very long time

The burden is mainly on Nintendo's first parties again to act as that differentiating factor, and also on price, and then to make sure the third parties actually do support it, but the latter point seems to be a given because the market is currently more adverse to third parties than it has been since the NES days.

I dont see nintendo failing maybe they wont reach the heights of the wii but i see them making good profit so who cares. As long as they release good games which i know they will i dont see anything bad happening. This Malstorm guy issued an opinion sue him.

The problem being Metroid simply hasn't been a system seller... ever (and his glorification of the original Metroid in that regard is misguided enough). Which would tie back into his irrational assertion that every Nintendo game must be a system seller or its just pointless developer masturbation

This. I just don't understand why (if this supposed Cafe rumor has any truth to it) Nintendo would think it was a good idea to simply pull what Sony and Microsoft pulled in the beginning of this gen. and battle it out in the red ocean.  This is a philosophy that led both of them to "lose" the marketshare battle to Nintendo quite handedly, and they have even tried to rectify their mistakes by trying "catch up with the Wii" with Move and Kinect. Especially if the technolgy they are using to recapture the core market is barely more powerful than PS3 current hardware. Sure, they are selling more units now, after getting their ass handed to them year after year by the Wii and it's blue ocean strategy.

The Wii was released as both a way to keep gaming fresh and to expand the market. Nintendo new that releasing an HD GameCube simply wouldn't net them any more consumers, and concurrently wouldn't expand the market, wouldn't make gaming "fresh" and new for the core, leaving the game industry to go down the path of higher dev costs, games, and most importantly, a consumer base that wouldn't have expanded after the PS2 era. If they can find a way to continue to expand the market (doing something revolutionary) while catering to the hardcore (better online, third party support, ect.) all at a mainstream consumer firendly price, they will be in good hands.

After all, if their next console is truly is only for the "core" what the hell was the point of the Wii to begin with?  Would this be Nintendo's way of saying we never should have tried to expand the market in the first place?

And what is this horseshit about Galaxy and Twilight Princess "not selling?" He cherry picks certain games and franchises he likes, and then anything else doesn't sell, even if it does reach the 8th digit.

Malstrom should follow what he preaches: he's mad at developers for giving up on content and focusing on meaningless ego-stroking. Pot, meet kettle.