KohlyKohl on 03 June 2009
| .jayderyu said: sigh, I have now watched more than just one industry of interest to me over the years. Though with sites like VGCharts and the consistent market talk. I can honestly say that over the 3 years of paying attention to the market I can use that knowledge reflectively amongst the years in the numerous industries I like. I'm not a business man or an analysts. I am an enthusiast. This article and the other are full of BS. They show a consistent lack of insight, knowledge, applied consumer behavior. They do show preference. They are enthusiast but in the vein of not successful business, but in trying encourage a preferred company. I have looked at the N64 and said that will stomp the PS1, I said that the GC will finally over come the PS2 and XBox, I said that Earth Dawn will take the throne over D&D, I said that Heavy Gear will be bigger than Battle Tech, Jovian Chronicals will be the Americas Gundam, Tribe 8 will be the Apocalypse game. I was wrong. I was consistently wrong. When the Wii came I had my reservations. I wanted to hope that this was machine that would put Nintendo back to number one. I get it now. I got it about two years ago. A successful product isn't a good product or a better product. A successful product fills the values of the consumer first. If a product doesn't fill the consumers primary values then a different product can take it's place. But if those values are filled then that product CANNOT be detrhoned. No matter how much it's better by. I get that you cannot play the winners game. They set the rules, they will set the rules against you. The only game you need to play is figuring out the consumers not the competitor products. In such a light of understanding and placing such view of values in retrospects to all industries all games all mistaken "bets" I have made. I can see where I went wrong. I can also see the signs that will point to being right next time. These articles are written to my old perceived notions of what makes a successful product. Being better, but that has historicly for hundreds if not thousands of years have proven to be consistently wrong. Windows 1 was not better than Apples first GUI, Apple was designing theirs first. MS got theres out first. It was an inferior product. As much the same is true today. OSX is a better design, but that doesn't matter. Windows is already out. If the big sign saying that I HAVE ALREADY FILLED PEOPLES NEEDS cannot be read since the early days of home computing. What chance to so many article writers really have. I from the point of an industry view have little respect for the media of either industry. I respect the creators and what they try to do. I don't respect when developers are half assed and whine about their incompetence. Blaming others is a sign of insecurity about your self. It's a redirection tactic. A redirection tactic that does unfortunetly still work. I have respect for Natal because while it's still copying Nintendo in direction. It's not copying Nintendo in how. They have decided to try the Nintendo path there own way. Sony however is a direct cheapness. I'm glad they are trying to find improvments however. |
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