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@Groucho: It's not that interesting in the sense that it's the way how disruption works. You start with the market segment that doesn't generate much profit for the incumbents and slowly move towards the core market, that has traditionally created the biggest profits.
Nintendo started with an audience that the competition wasn't interested in and now moving towards the new traditional audience, or atleast counts on 3rd parties to do so. Now that Wii has so big installbase and library that it can sustain itself, Nintendo can go pretty aggressively towards the old market. Sony and M$ can try to attack Nintendo, but due to Wiis library, they aren't likely to succeed, while Wiis 3rd party support is growing and they can push the competition in the upmarket.
Basically what happens is, that the more 3rd parties make money on Wii, the more Wii interest them and they keep on putting their games on to the platform. Eventually the "PS360 type" of titles will end up on Wii (more money->more games, more games->more money), but there's still the high-end market that Wii can't reach due to its tech.

Also notice how Reggie is talking about competing and keeps mentioning Conduit and Madworld that are stepping on the PS360 territory (it's saying to 3rd parties that this is what we want to see from you).



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