disolitude said:
I cant see how one wouldn't consider PS1 a disruption. The aspect of "make money on software, not hardware" sony introduced put atleast 5 other companies out of the hardware business (Sega, 3DO, Atari, SNK, Phillips CDI). In any case, since Malstrom is always writing about nintendo, Id love to see him write an interesting article about how nintendo is using their best R&D teams to think of ways to expand the casual ocean...while having much smaller teams work on games for the hardcore. We all know its true...why else would we be getting an outsourced Metroid game, a DS port of a Super Mario bros game and Mario Gallaxy 2...which Miyamoto himself said is mostly composed of ideas that didn't make it in to part 1. |
As we've seen this gen, the lose money on hardware idea doesn't work, as Sony is heavily reeling and Nintendo is prospering
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)