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Soundwave said:

Malstrom sounds like a jilted girlfriend that's found out her boyfriend was just trying to get into her pants and not all about the romantic phrases he used to pick her up in the first place.

Blue Ocean is just a buzz word Nintendo uses when it serves their purposes. Push comes to shove, Iwata wants to win and will use any reasonable method in his aresenal (blue ocean, red ocean, purple ocean ... whatever) to get the job done.  

That simple. That's Iwata, he's not like Yamauchi who just sat idly by as Sony basically took Nintendo's market share without any fight whatsoever.

You listen to Iwata in interviews and its clear -- he pays attention to week to week and recent sales trends. Nintendo is not just a profit oriented company, they have learned (the hard way) that when you don't have marketshare and you don't aggressively protect marketshare -- your profits will dwindle in time too because you become irrelevant.

The DSi was entirely a response to the rising PSP sales and dropping DS sales in Japan last year for instance IMO (it come out in Japan months before meandering over to the West). Nintendo would not have released that model otherwise. They will react when they see their hardware share dropping. 

@BOLD: EXACTLY! Yet you didn't get a Malstrom hissy, or any other columnist saying it was a horrible idea. Wii is like that athlete that people either love or hate. If anyone ever looks back on this time in history that will be what they remember, lol.