Nintendo: "We aren't competing with Sony or Microsoft"

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Khuutra said:

disolitude said:

http://www.consolecommunity.com/xbox-360-news/11940-moore-xbox-360-planning-ignored-nintendo.html

 

Nevertheless, if you think MS isn't going to try(and most likely succeed) in taking the leader out, you don't know Microsoft. Thats what they do, and have always been doing. Leader is Nintendo now...so...and we all know they are not going to try to take Ms out of the console business as thats not what they do.

There's a fine line between ignoring someone in on's planning and not intending to beat them. They thought they would beat Nintendo out of hand. It didn't happen.

Last generation they thought they stood a chance against the Playstation. That didn't happen either.

Microsoft's bad-ass, but they're not the reason the Playstation 3 didn't win the console war this generation. Nintendo is.

And Microsoft has, up to this point, not been able to wrench first place away from anyone. It's not going to be any quality inherent to that company which allows them to do so, eventually, it will be the marketplace itself, and it will be fleeting and temporary.

I beg to differ.  Sony kicked their own ass.  They easily could have kept MS in the low ten percentile range had they done things right.  Instead they gave MS and Nintendo the chance to eat away at them from both sides, with MS taking huge chunks of the traditional gamers and Nintendo taking huge chunks of the non-traditional gamers.

Edit.  Hit post too soon.

Nintendo's market share is hugely based on a brand new segement of the market.  Frankly speaking neither MS nor SONY could possibly hope to grab that part of the market at the moment.  They are non-traditional gamers: they don't want to invest large sums of money, they play comprise a wide swath age group, are perfectly happy with mini-games.  MS and SONY just do not have that image and I wonder if they could ever.