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senortaco said:

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.

*cough* face book *cough*

The various steps of Innovators Dilemma and Blue Ocean also have to keep in mind that products need to reach the farther extended market. I don't have a PSP, but the DSi does have camera which I believe the PSP does not(correct me if i'm wrong). You know how many I see take pictures with camera phones? Then there is facebook, a download service that seems to move towards iPhone/Touch series. No DSi is not a move to counter PSP. It's a move to tap into the same market as the iTouch/Phone. It's just that I don't think Nintendo realized they were moving into already sailed waters.

 

As for Maelstrom. I keep saying it, but he's just like anyother person out there. He has his bias as anyone else. It's also pretty clear that he is a gamer that likes to experience company material rather than user material. He likes shorter games than longers games. He like arcade over story. Which is all fine in personal taste. But as for content there are numerous games that give his theory the boot. Half Life 1/2, NWN, Baldurs Gate, Sims series, Elite Beats Agent computer rippoff game that I can't think the name of, Frets of Fire(Guitar Hero rip off for PC), World of Warcraft Mods are endless, RPG Maker has been roaming around on the Japanese SNES for EONS. We get it Maelstrom is just as silly as most others. Unless he is writing about the actually movement of Nintendo in relations to BOS. Don't listen to the guy.