Iwata: No stock pillling for Wii, No cheap DSi due strong yen

[Demotruk]

exindguy said:

student said:

Lurker said:
They need to be careful with the price of DSi. A high price can screw over a brand no matter how big it is.

Hrmm adding new techie features not related to gaming, upping the costs... sounds like PS3 :).

I think this is an interesting point(s): would it have made more sense for Nintendo to have refreshed the hardware with newer screens and nixed all the other, ancillary, features (saving them for a DS2, instead)? Hindsight being 20/20 (in light of the economic downturn/strength of the yen), perhaps they would have.

 

No, the DSi follows the blue ocean strategy precisely(the strategy they've been following from the beginning). It is the device that pulls in customers in markets entirely distant, hence it is as much a tool as a games device.