It will be tough competition. Its not surprising. It might bomb like the Zune. If it does the I Phone might get some interesting re design ideas from it and Sony might also.
The accelorometer might just be a precursor to the Xbox remote plan too.
Meanwhile DS with 70% of the handheld is almost as much of a lock as Windows software is with 89% of computer op systems. Not impenetrable but very difficult.
Think Ipod vs Zune and we'll see if MS can improve.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
