Lets not forget Google Laptops. Windows op system market share is dropping slowly and, as someone mentioned, even tv's are integrating basic pc/ net software. How about Google's digital cloud software (if thats what its called) which allows you to store Word, Excel etc right there online when you need it. Mobile Phones, mini laptops for 500$, its a busy market right now.
Nintendo did what Sony and MS didn't have the balls to do, take a gamble on new forms of control, and in much the same way that Apple won the mp3 market Nintendo is winning the console/handheld market. That the Wii is white is not a coincidence.
But above all else Nintendo have got loads of experience making games for everyone. They have always thought about the whole market, and unlike Apple who have always thought simple in terms of users and op. software on their imacs Nintendo has done exceptionally well at it.
All nintendo (or sony) have to do is get preinstalled software agreements with Opera (already done but in terms of capability to offer cloud software, go to google) and then have fast enough dual processors to perform multiple functions on their machines. MS is then very very screwed.
Heres an article on Google's cloud, interesting stuff and i just noticed Yahoo's doing it too. There is alot more competition than MS care to think about.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9978409-7.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9989019-93.html
“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.
