| landguy1 said: I disagree with the notion that Nintendo was aggressive at all with the Wii. Clearly, the Wii's general success was hoped for, but in no way planned for. If they had ANY idea that it would have hit this big, they would have had twice the production planned during its first 18 months. |
They would have charged $299 for the priviledge of owning one and wouldn't have given their biggest ever game away for free had they had any idea.
| landguy1 said: I can't call Nintendo smart for what was obviously lightning in a bottle, they could have killed the PS3 and 360 completely had they been ready for it. The reality is, that no company can plan for such a cultural phenomenon that is/was the Wii. Just ask Apple about their ipods. When they came out originally, the same thing happened about 6-7 months after they launched. The lemmings decided that they had found the standard for mobile music devices and voted with their wallets. Bottom line : It can't hurt to be in the right place at the right time! |
I did feel there was a suspicious lack of investment in the Wii. It's really as if they thought 'if it fails we can come up with something conventional in a few years'. Since they still pay royalties to ATI and IBM it would have only meant that they would have had to front up a larger quantity of money up front for a new architecture. It wouldn't have made any difference to the long term cost had they started this generation with something a little more up to date.
Tease.
