| Mazty said: I agree that Ninty are a bad company with a poor CEO because of their lack of foresight. Let's look at the wii. That shows foresight right? Yes, but what happened was that core gamers left Nintendo and have moved to either Sony or MS. Now in the past this wasn't an issue but nowadays with so much online play, just like WoW, people don't want to leave something they've invested time in - I'm talking about friends lists and trophies, as well as franchises. Now Nintendo should have seen this coming and released an absolute power house (like the PS4) back in October instead of the Wii U, while subsidising it more than they currently are. This way it would have lured core gamers back to the Nintendo badge. Expecting casual gamers to come back to the Nintendo badge was a complete failure to understand the market. Those gamers flitter from one gadget to the next - unless you're the "cool" item, they will ignore you - Zynga are a victim of this as well. Therefore releasing the Wii U, so far, shows to have been a complete misunderstanding of the market and may cost Ninty dearly. |
The core gamers clearly left during the gamecube era . Most of those core gamers that stayed with the gamecube into the wii realized that Nintendo still supported the console with steady fresh first party offerings. Zynga is a victim of the social gaming bubble which popped in the last year. The wii was a bubble too but not to the same extent. Rather, the Wii became party thing, being played every so often at parties rather than just gathering dust. Also, the core gamers population is still small. I'm willing to guess that it is about 10 million per console with some overlap. Its not a complete misunderstanding of the market, its that core gamers have changed. Rather than being impulse buyers, they are looking more into other options and to get the most value out of their buck. The ones who impulse buy got jaded by the 3DS and Vita. That is why you will see the PS4 and new Xbox struggle similarly. Gaming PCs are becoming more viable options with Steam deals and the growth of the indie market as well as better tech becoming cheaper.
