| The Ghost of RubangB said: I love how he calls it a "delay" as if it had been announced, with a date, and then the date was pushed back. Or it was expected by now. The Wii has been out for 3 years and 6 months. So has the PS3. Yet the one that is breaking sales records and profit records is hurting Nintendo, and the one that lost all the PS2 money is doing fine? |
This is the whole problem with Pachter's logic: it's a delay in his mind because from the start he thought the Wii was a stop-gap, a system to throw out there and delay the competition, and keep its fans happy until they could release a proper next-gen system. He never believed that Nintendo was releasing the Wii, bucking all the trends of increased technological power and the hardcore fanbase, in favor of closer to Earth tech and a focus on the expanded audience, as a real system.
When Nintendo launched the DS, they were following a three-pillar strategy, keeping the GBA around while also selling the DS (the GameCube was the other pillar); this way, they had two possible outcomes: either the DS succeeds and takes over the handheld market; or it delays the PSP long enough for Nintendo to launch a souped up GameBoy, which we now know was in development. When the DS took over, Nintendo ended the GameBoy line with the GBA, and scrapped the next-gen GameBoy.
For the Wii, there was no three-pillar strategy; they killed the GameCube and brought in the Wii as their main console. There is only one outcome as far as Nintendo is concerned, the Wii succeeds. There is no Super GameCube waiting in the wings, ready to strike at the right time, while the Wii holds off the competition; it's all about the Wii.
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