Malstrom: Wii Hatred is about hatred of the new customers

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oli2 said:

MontanaHatchet said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

 

They've done it once before, with the NES, so its a pretty good chance they'll do it again at some point

Sony did it once before with the Playstation, doesn't necessarily mean they'll do it once again. The only way Nintendo could really disrupt the market is if the market was in control of another company, and at that point, I see the disruption happening by a newcomer.

With all due respect to both of you, neither the NES nor the Playstation comings were 'disruptions' in the economical sense.

I am not sure you have understood what this economical strategy trully is.

Nothing prevents Nintendo from disrupting itself. In fact, Malstrom predicts that Nintendo have to disrupt itself to survive the Wii !

The NES is, the Playstation isn't.

The NES made gaming simpler, and marketed towards underserved, "crummy" customers (children). The Atari era consoles may have already been going down the tubes, but they were still disrupted in the end.

The playstation on the other hand outcompeted in the market. It didn't make things simpler, or appeal to new customers. Instead the Playstation had a larger software library, more computational power, more capable of 3D etc. And in part they used their financial muscle to do this. by selling the consoles at a loss. The customers it sold to were mostly the NES era kids who were looking for gaming to grow up with them, ie. be something that's cool and 'mainstream'.

The playstation was attempting to disrupt the personal computer though.