Brilliant Sean Mastrom's blog entry

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Sky Render said:

The purpose of Maelstrom's blog is not to be pro- or anti-anything gaming-specific. His main goal is to observe a market trend in action, and to note the side-effects of that change. It's pointless, as a result, to take what he says personally; the goal for him is to learn what it means to successfully put out a disruptive product and make a blue ocean market. Who the teams involved are matters little in that analysis. He could have just as easily analyzed a different market in the midst of such a change, if there were any others so early in the process available for study.

The short of it: don't read it as pro-Nintendo, read it as pro-Blue Ocean and pro-disruption. Because that's what it is.

 

That's sort of how I read him, too. This disruption/blue ocean thing seems to be his cup of tea, and he has a knack for explaining it on a deeper level than Nintendo's hinting at it and the rest of the industry's complete lack of getting it as it chops their collective legs off.