@Mummelmann: A lot of gamers definately think so, i don't disagree, but now that you think of it, you really would need to look it outside your personal preference. Just like the number of people who don't like the game and never will, there will be people who love Wii Music. I, for example, don't like GTA sequels, but i can see why people like the games.
If make a rough definition for a genious game, it would propably be a game that nobody have thought out before and a game that appeals new audience.
And Malstrom "being right" isn't the issue, the real issue is why he was right in the first place. If you read his Wiikly articles, you'll notice that they have the same tone as this blog post in question. He tells in the Wiikly, that Wii will GC, not that it will beat the sales records so far. What eventually boosted Wii for the dominance it has, is because of Sony fucking its things up with PS3. The Playstation brand was so strong, that it could had competed with Wii, but pricing the PS3 out of the competition and creating a Blu-Ray (price) deadlock, keeps it out of competition.
The thing with Malstrom is, that he is basing his articles and blog posts to an extent, to blue ocean strategy and disruption strategy, the thing what all the analysts should have done.
@rubido: Well, Nintendo is doing pretty much everything they can. Wii Music is part of the strategy. Then there is the competition, that can create surprises, ie you can only say later on, that was the strategy perfect, not in advance.
Yes, the answer is quite clear, but you didn't have the right option.
He is studying how Nintendo is managing its disruptive business strategy. If you have ever read studies that have been made in similar cases, they all glorify the "rags to riches" companies (or riches to riches in Nintendos case, since it made good profit even before the DS and Wii). Then, what you critisize, is when the company doesn't follow the strategy, for example: if Nintendo suddenly would cancel all the "Wii series" type of games or wouldn't make games like MKWii and Wario Land (especially this) and would focus on games like SMG, they would step out of being a disruptive company to being incumbent.
Why Malstrom doesn't mention the times Nintendo got it wrong, is because Nintendo haven't got it wrong. Nintendo is going forward by the Christensen books. Only thing that counts, is whether the games are good enough to meet the new values so that the new audience is adopting them.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
