| RolStoppable said: Nintendo's shield was their motivation that they took the so-called casual gamers seriously and made quality games for them. Sony hasn't had this motivation which is why Move was irrelevant pretty much as soon as it launched. Microsoft's Kinect only found success due to an insane marketing campaign (half a billion dollars) and has fizzled out since then. Microsoft lacks the motivation as well. Move and Kinect didn't even put a dent into Wii sales, so why should Nintendo even think of releasing a new console? But that's exactly what they are going to do and it's not only going to kill the Wii, but its successor as well. Nintendo still had control over the market they created, but they were careless. With the Wii U Nintendo is giving up the Wii market and chasing Sony's and Microsoft's audience. It's suicide. On the topic of sequels, it takes years before they become stale. There was still plenty of time for Nintendo to ride the Wii wave, but those aren't the games they want to make. This is obvious from the 3DS where nearly everything announced isn't a sequel to one of the DS's bestselling games and it's not like the games they are actually making are new IPs. They aren't. Regarding top-down disruption, it succeeds far less often than the reverse approach. The PS Vita won't succeed for the same reasons the PSP didn't succeed at doing exactly the same thing. As for your other post, how can you even post such blatant garbage? Ridge Racer 3D being vastly inferior to Asphalt 3D? Do you know anything about video games at all? Also, as usual, the complaints about Nintendo always come from third party developers who make atrocious games, but feel entitled to success regardless. |
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Sep 2010 to 03rd Sep 2011:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
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Total
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14,904,669
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13,628,094
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13,204,899
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VGChartz Hardware data for the period 06th Sep 2009 to 04th Sep 2010:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
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Total
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20,623,908
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15,107,267
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11,283,760
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VGChartz Hardware data for the period 07th Sep 2008 to 05th Sep 2009:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
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Total
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20,819,229
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9,373,511
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11,098,561
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3 years ago, nintendo wii consoles were a little over 50% of the market. The enxt year it was 44%. The past year in which 360 and ps3 released motion controls, they are at 36%. But look at the sales. nintendo sold consistently the same amount 3 yrs ago as it did 2 years go. However, in this past year when 360 sales should have been down, it is actually up a significant amount over predicted drop. Wii is down almost 5 million and 360/ ps3 are exceeding expectations by almost that exact amount, weighing more heavily on the 360 side.
Yet in that past year, nintendo released kirby (2D), wii party, metroid (2D-like), DKCreturns (2D), wiiplay motion, etc, and is significantly down.
And, no it isn't that top down is less successful, it just isn't as deadly. But that's not what's being argued. The fact of the matter is that if Nintendo abandons popular more "traditionally core" games (ie; more complex), it isn't going to be pretty for them.
As far as asphalt vs rr, it was the insider's opinion. Just countering that his opinion is bad (which I agree with you on) doesn't make the case wrong that Nintendo is atrocious with its third party support... far more atrocious than people understand.
The fact remains that nintendo focused on one type of game, and while it was a great business decision in the short term, they made it very difficult for third parties to make quality games, and thereby pushed possible successes (or gave up) games that are then successful on the other systems using their motion control, or utilizing their network download support.
Christensen says that to continue disrupting, the disruptor must move upstream along with the incumbents. Nintendo is doing this way too late with this system. They needed to do this 2 years ago, and they needed to make more complex games/allow developers less risk in making those games. Games like Catherine could easily have been ported to the wii. So why weren't they? Because Nintendo doesn't want them.
