| 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. |
What gets disrupted is not the marketplace, but the plans of your competitors. Because of motion control being the differentiator, and not high def output this generation, the Wii has disrupted the plans of Microsoft and Sony, forcing them to adjust and go also for motion control.
What you see Nintendo saying is that they aren't just going to do high def. They will be adding other things when the time is right for it. Anyone want to speculate what that is? I wouldn't know, but apparently speculate in my next post.
