Kim/Chan(2 authors did BOS), Innovators Dilemma/Solution were by Christenson. Well was dropping the price a move because of PS360 price drops or was the price drop planned, but put into to play around the same time. The economy is certainly suffering as are people hesitant to spend money on items they don't seem as valuable as they did 2 years ago. Innovation/Value price point could have just dropped do to current circumstances. I don't think we will ever know if Nintendo was making a competitive or BOS move. One thing is for sure. The time they did it in was certainly more competitive. They could have done this next month in November to get a xmas sale feel or a month earlier to try to increase the userbase for xmas software sales.
PS. I'll say it again. Maelstrom interpretation articles are a great read. Correctly it is interpretation and that's always prone to mistakes. As for his blog, well he sounds like every other fanboy out there. "you aren't catering to me, so you are making a mistake" attitude of his. User Generated Content does find and gives massive life to games, but in these cases UGC needs to be properly supported. On the internet UGC thrives because the PC/OS is open design and sharing is easy. Custom apps to share UGC is easy(Curse Client). On a console it's a closed system. So support coming from the software is a 100% must. WiiMusic the obvious candidate for UGC content for Maelstroms Wii rant was 95% fail on support. Such creation of expressionism requires easy mass exposure. What would have worked would be uploading the created songs to a shared website making viewing the creation outside the software easy. Other Wise WiiMusic failed because it failed at what Music is. It's not about just the creation it's about expressing the creation to others and considering the annoyance of the individual FC system. Well Nintendo didn't fail to communicate the market they failed and understanding the market.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
