I absolutely cannot fathom the hatred of Maelstrom on this site, i thought it was a joke (reading from Maelstroms blog) that many people hate him for his views.
Maelstrom makes it quite clear what he hates is the general attitude of the game industry, and all that aids in what he perceives as the bad practices of the game industry (journalists, some game companies etc).
I dont think Maelstrom is particularly biassed against nintendo, he is very scathing of nintendo's price cut and even talks down Miyamoto.
Anyway that being said, i do agree with alot of Maelstrom's observations.
The game industry IS DYING, this is fact, the vast majority of gamers today, are gamers of the PS1 and SNES era, there is little to no NEW CUSTOMERS (that being people who didnt play games), and the new customers are always playing the DS and Wii (my nephews being them).
As to the shield & Defense, Nintendo has to create new momentum for their wii, NSMB is a good step, but they need to continously create new games with this kind of easy accessable fun gameplay, what stalled the wii was a lack of this.
Can xbox and PS3 somehow come out on top? no, their too mired in their games now, the games they make are the games i play, but even i realize these games are quickly growing stale.
Devil May cry, Ninja gaiden, God of war etc etc, they may be different IP's but i grow tired of the gameplay itself, so when i get bored of ninja gaiden, i am never going to buy these other IP's.
Tekken 6, soul calibur, SF4, Blazblue, i played SF4, i do not feel like playing any of the other Ip's (though i have a copy of Soul Calibur and played every previous iteration of Tekken) after playing Sf4.
FPS? i played the heck out of counterstrike and also a bit of TF, i have absolutely no desire to play any of the COD games.
Metroid Prime? i loved it, didnt feel like playing any of the later Metroid's as they all felt the same.
About the Wii being disruptive, of course its disruptive, the person who coined the damn term said the wii is disruptive.
Read what Christensen writes about Nintendo and what Sony should do
http://www.easy-strategy.com/sony-strategy.html
