Is Nintendo having a summit to counter MS's X10?

[Demotruk]

trestres said:
@Demotruk: Actually not, the Wii has been on decline for the past 2 weeks, compared to its performance of last year. Perhaps they are having this summit to reinvigorate the confidence of their investors.

But you know, VS wasn't announced to please investors. It was announced because they wanted to remain competitive in the innovations field. They were supposed to demonstrate Wii M+ last year, VS was a peripheral that was going to be shown this year. Why even show something you will not show again until you attend to the next show next year? Makes no sense.

There are shortages, demand has been above supply so the last couple of weeks have not been reflective of demand. It's after January weeks which were up YoY running through stock so I'll be more concerned if it continues to be down when they get the shortages under control.

 

I do think revealing it was a dumb move, because it gives too much info to the competition, but it does have a logic to it. Investors may have been worried that Nintendo had lost the path, they hadn't released any majorly successful Blue Ocean Software since early 2008 and hadn't shown any signs of new ones. It probably didn't convince investors but at least you can see the reasoning. Of course, that is basically what you've said, since 'competitive in the innovations field' is very much an investor concern and not so much a gamer concern. However, suggesting that it was to compete with the hype of Natal or Arc doesn't make sense, unless you are simply supposing that Nintendo are stupid. They couldn't possibly have expected it to generate excitement among customers, they didn't even show a tech demonstration let alone appealing software.