Sqrl on 30 August 2008
Good article.
@Squilliam,
Are you seriously trying to say you know more about disruption than Maelstrom? If you honestly think you do, perhaps you should try to contact the man for a debate and set the record straight?
Your rants about him thus far have been..uhm.. interesting.....A few notes I took while reading:
- The Wii owners being predominantly PS2 owners *supports* the disruption claim..it doesn't contradict it.
- Disruption has almost nothing to do with price, bringing up the price of the 360 as a supporting point illustrates that you don't really understand this stuff. Disruption is all about refocusing the values of a product away from an overshot value and towards new values that customers appreciate more than incremental upgrades to the old value. The price is a tertiary concern.
- And no it can't be that Nintendo is just serving existing markets better (although that could be part of it). This should be obvious since compared to last generation at this point the Wii represents ~89% of the total HW sales of PS2, GC, and Xbox sales combined. Comparing the full market there has been an increase of 92% in hardware sales GTD GoG. Nintendo has a ~270% growth over the last gen, Sony has a ~15% drop over last gen, and MS has a 16% growth over last gen. So which console is primarily reponsible for that 92% growth in hardware sales? And where do those extra customers come from?
PS - For the record I definitely agree Maelstrom can be a cocky and pompous writer but he also knows what he is talking about.
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