How Nintendo just punked Sony and Microsoft

[Pyro as Bill]

ssj12 said:

UncleScrooge said:

They mainly punked them in a sense that Sony and Microsoft are catering to upmarket customers. But neither of them will be able to move even further upmarket (800$ consoles? Longer development cycle for games?).

If Nintendo plays their cards right they will be better at motion gaming (just like you said) and "hardcore" enough to get a decent share of the upmarket customers which would screw Sony's and Microsoft's business. They weren't even able to recover their losses yet.

I don't get the purpose of that new Nintendo controller so I'll wait until e3 to go bonkers over anything. Things are getting more interesting, though.

both Microsoft and Sony can easily make a console for under $400 that is three to five times stronger than the PS3.

And then they have to decide whether to bundle Kinect/Move, just one Move or 2? Do we bundle nunchuks? Does MS make a wiimote? Does Move or Kinect get an upgrade? Will Sony's lollipop be backwards compatible?

And after all that, they'll still have to try and copy Nintendo again.