Nintendo - What next in the console market?

[Erik Aston]

Viper1 said:
Look, another Sony fan, or graphic whore (for lack fo a better term) here to chime in how Wii will fade.

This is a debate crushed almost as many times as Goombas.

I'll put it plain and simple. The video game market you are familiar with was a small niche market that was stagnating. Nintendo is tapping the far larger casual market. Given the sheer size of it, there is easily a market base to sustain the growth for years to come.

You do realize by 2012 we'll have a new console from all 3 companies, don't you?

 

I'm more concerned with this mischaracterization than with the original post, which has been sufficiently discredited.

 

Nintendo is not simply attempting to "tap the casual market." That's what Microsoft, Sony and EA are trying to do. Do you see Viva Pinata, Buzz!, Boogie, etc, high up on sales lists? Those are "casual" games which will never sell 1M copies, while traditional games like GTA, NSMB and Pokemon have no problem pushing 15M copies.

Companies that just think linearly about "how to gets us some casuals" aren't doing anything to expand the market. Nintendo are following "Blue Ocean strategy," which has nothing to do with "casual games."

I'm not going to explain it all. Read up on "Blue Ocean strategy," examine the best-selling games of all time, and put it together.