Scizor_99 said:
gigantor21 said:
The health and wellness industry isn't exactly untapped fertile ground. There's a shitton of products and services in that market already, from companies who've specialized in it for years. It sounds to me like trading one oversaturated market (casual gaming) for another.
Given how next to none of the Wii Sports/Wii Fit crowd has shifted to the WiiU, in large part because of how unappealing and poorly marketed it is as a product, I don't have much confidence in this initiative right now. We'll need to see more about it before I'm convinced.
Also, I find it hilarious that so many people are going "tl:dr fuck Gamespot" given all the even worse hack articles and biased shit that gets threads on this site everyday. :p
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Well I guess what they're thinking is that making a product dedicated to health and wellness is a much sounder approach than trying market it in the mantle of a video game console. They're segregating the part of their output that is strictly blue ocean (by gaming standards) and putting it in the market it belongs. If they can make a product that's unique and market it well while maintaining the same investment in game systems (which they've pretty much said they'd do), this will actually serve to increase the recognizability of NIntendo as a company and make them less dependent on video games to profit, allowing them to benefit in some regard from what Sony and Microsoft are able to.
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The problem, though, is that it's not working particularly well for Sony as a whole. And that's despite having decades of experience in a variety of non-gaming industries.
And there is a metric crapton of wellness-related devices around right now, so whatever they're trying to do would be released into a crowded market. The odds that this will blow up in their faces is really high. We need to see more about what they're actually doing, because I'm not the least bit convinced even attempting it is worth the risk.
