Malstrom: Nintendo’s Shield & Defense = “Sustained” Disruption?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Procrastinato said:

Nintendo never "disrupted" anything. They created a new market, and they have it practically all to themselves. If they had disrupted something, we'd see traditional gamers flocking to the Wii in droves.. but we don't.

You can't truly claim that HD console adoption hasn't reached previous console levels by itself, due to "Nintendo disruption".  There are a LOT of other factors in play -- namely that the PS2 still is in production, that HDTV adoption was slow, that Blu-Ray adoption was slow, that there's an economic crisis... on and on.  Those factors are significant.  Pretending its all Nintendo's doing is folly.

Actually they did, see disruption doesn't go for the upstream consumers first, it goes for the non-consumers, the downstream and overshot consumers, in fact the core gamers would be the last group targeted.

 

Except, if all those things are important, Why is the Wii still outselling the PS2's historical sales even though its a recession.

The problem with HD is it overshot the consumers, most consumers don't even know what HD is and don't really care, they bought flat screens because they look nice and can hang on the wall.  Blu-ray is the same, its more than the consumers wanted and so its taking time for it to penetrate.