| PSwii60 said: Nintendo should find a way to cater to the Blue Ocean and "Hardcore". They need a formula that bridges that gap. Either way, it seems the consumers demands so much from Nintendo; it seems they must be innovative, revolutionary, and unique to be successful whereas Sony and Microsoft have it easy - they just need to have a media-driven, powerful consoles in order to be successful. |
This. I just don't understand why (if this supposed Cafe rumor has any truth to it) Nintendo would think it was a good idea to simply pull what Sony and Microsoft pulled in the beginning of this gen. and battle it out in the red ocean. This is a philosophy that led both of them to "lose" the marketshare battle to Nintendo quite handedly, and they have even tried to rectify their mistakes by trying "catch up with the Wii" with Move and Kinect. Especially if the technolgy they are using to recapture the core market is barely more powerful than PS3 current hardware. Sure, they are selling more units now, after getting their ass handed to them year after year by the Wii and it's blue ocean strategy.
The Wii was released as both a way to keep gaming fresh and to expand the market. Nintendo new that releasing an HD GameCube simply wouldn't net them any more consumers, and concurrently wouldn't expand the market, wouldn't make gaming "fresh" and new for the core, leaving the game industry to go down the path of higher dev costs, games, and most importantly, a consumer base that wouldn't have expanded after the PS2 era. If they can find a way to continue to expand the market (doing something revolutionary) while catering to the hardcore (better online, third party support, ect.) all at a mainstream consumer firendly price, they will be in good hands.
After all, if their next console is truly is only for the "core" what the hell was the point of the Wii to begin with? Would this be Nintendo's way of saying we never should have tried to expand the market in the first place?
