John Lucas had some good points. I share his agenda concerning Sony and PS3.
But he didn't talk about the most important factor that makes a console successful in long terms: 3rd Party revenues.
Nintendo has some great success with Wii and DS. But the most people in the business observed one important fact by now: none but Nintendo earns money with DS and Wii. The 3rd party sales on Wii are a desaster.
Big player like EA and Ubisoft sank millions of dollars in Wii game development. The average Wii consumer acquired a Wii to buy Nintendo games and only Nintendo games. Also, Nintendo had big advances to develop games for the new controller - that's why they dominate the Wii market so bad today.
But over the years, Nintendo will miss the 3rd party license revenues.
The Xbox360 is the opposite to the Wii. 3rd party publisher earned good money with their franchises e.g. Madden , Call of Duty, Assassin Creed, Guitar Hero etc.
I know a couple of publisher in the industry that retreats from DS and Wii market because their titles just don't sell. Needless to say, on reason for that is the enormous number of shovelware games on Nintendo platforms.
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