Ail said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Actually by moving against Nintendo, they realize that Nintendo is a threat to their market, that their market is in fact shrinking, the reasn is, the risks at moving into Nitnendo's ocean, is they risk alienating their long time supporters, and creating a backlash, so in fact the only reason they would try to move against Nintendo and co-opt the disruption is because they know its a threat.
Actually the idea is how the disrupted responds, is the most important, see if they successfully adopt the new market principles, they can prevent the disruptor from moving upstream and have succeeded in co-opting the disruption, right now the NATAL and Wand don't show signs of being able to do that, they show that MS and Sony don't really get what Nintendo is doing.
Actually the market is moving away from the old one, which is why the old market is faced with so many financial issues, a healthy market doesn't have the problems that the HD market is having, with companies laying off by the boatloads, and developers and publishers going under. There are signs of a dying market.
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Facts actually do not back this.
When 2009 is over and people do the revenue comparison with 2008 they will realize that HD market in $ was fairly stable while the Wii market saw a very significant decline that year...( due to the limited numbers we will only be able to compute this for the US thanks to NPD though).
So basically this new market Nintendo supposedly found is collapsing very fast...
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Revenue for the first half was abnormally high in 2008 due to killer apps (Mario Kart, Smash Brawl, Wii Fit) while the latter half sank. This year it's basically the opposite, an empty first half with all the killer apps loaded in the latter (Wii Sports Resort, Monster Hunter 3, Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario). We'll have to wait until the year's actually over to see if this market is "collapsing" as you claim.
