You know the more i think about it i see a much greater failure in the inability to appeal to ALL ages, both genders and all types of gamer.
No one critisizes this, at least significantly, but BK, LBP, RC and Sonic are not appealing to the narrow audience of the HD systems.
Next gen. you will see the change in both competitors and it will not be towards conservative teenager audience, its not enough to compete anymore.
“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.
