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UncleScrooge on 04 April 2013
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DieAppleDie said:



I agree with this. Iwata is the genius that pulled the WiiDS out of his ass like magic. He made bilions for his co. with only some basic clever ideas...he has A LOT of credit left.


No, he actually didn't. That was no magic, Iwata simply followed two very influential business theories and he openly stated so. Just look at these two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Uncontested-Competition/dp/1591396190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365087242&sr=8-1&keywords=Blue+Ocean+Strategy

--> Blue Ocean Strategy (DS followed this guideline) deals with the problem of direct competition (red oceans) and how to avoid competition by creating new markets (blue oceans). Nintendo followed this strategy because of the PSP and the threat it represented!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365087334&sr=1-1&keywords=the+innovators+dilemma

--> The Innovator's dilemma. This one deals with disruptive technology. And Nintendo cited this work sooo many times in 2005 and 2006 that it still baffles me how all those awesome gaming "journalists" never even bothered to read the book and explain the success of the Wii. Instead we got all that "casual gamer" crap lol.

I've mentioned those books dozens of times in these forums but no one seems interested in reading them. Just read them and it'll be like a 1:1 representation of the things Nintendo did with the Wii and DS. The Innovator's dilemma at times sounds like it was written because of Nintendo, so uncanny is the resemblence. These theories also perfectly explain the success of the iPod, iPhone, iPad (Steve Jobs called the latter one the most influential book he had read in his life), why the NES won against personal computers, why Nintendo failed with the N64 and Gamecube (and currently the Wii U) and why the 3DS struggled in the beginning.