Iwata: Wii U/3DS will cater to core gamers first, mass market second

[DarkTemplar]

happydolphin said:

DarkTemplar said:
"Iwata explained, it decided not to flood the 3DS's early release slate with casual games ... It intends to take a similar approach with the Wii U when it launches later this year."

So the Wii U will be a red ocean product?

It'll be a hybrid.

They will begin by cementing the red ocean in the first year (as was done for the 3DS), and then move on and evolutively seek out the casual audience (blue ocean), incrementally.

It's a solid plan. One is more difficult to secure, and that's the red ocean. Once it's secured, it's a solid revenue stream because, even though they don't buy one game alot, they buy alot of games less. As could be seen between Wii games and HD twin games. The data is in front of our eyes

Note: I'm calling the casual audience blue ocean still because the competition has yet to make headway there, despite kinect and all.

I have to confess that I'm not confident in this "new" Nintendo business model, but I hope I'm wrong, after all it's not good the game industry to have big companies like Nintendo facing problems to sell their consoles.