Shuhei Yoshida wishes Nintendo to succeed

[kabamarutr]

t3mporary_126 said:

kabamarutr said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

kabamarutr said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
Good for him. It's nice to see rivals supporting each other because they love the medium, regardless of brand.

I just wish his words didn't feed the canard that Nintendo is for young people and Sony for adults.

Each and every statement has a message hidden between the lines. I really wish what you have correctly spotted, not to be such a message.

What is the message?

As I've said, you have spotted a potential message. The one I underlined, to be exact. I really wish it is not a true message and that he'd said it just because he bought 2 WiiUs for his 2 daughters.

Could be micro-aggression in console wars or coincidental context.

Come to think of it, even if it was a micro-aggresion, the act itself of wishing success to an opponent is so large as to render it insignificant. It's exemplary behavior and I enjoyed seeing it coming from Microsoft as well, earlier this day.

It could be what a fellow above has mentioned; perhaps the threat posed by tablets and smartphones is big enough to force "alliances". Imagine a gamer, that starts gaming with console brand "A". Over the years, the taste of competition, combined with maturity and curiosity, leads him to a "jump" to brand "B" and eventually brand  "C".

Over the course of time, all three companies have benefitted from a single gamer. Customers are thusly "recycled", offering profits to all of them and prolonging consoles' existence in the market. Excluding fanboys (the irony), everybody else act to the interest of console gaming industry.