| Garcian Smith said: Nah. There will always be a market for cutting-edge technology. The difference is that now the cutting-edge will shift from "mainstream" (as mainstream as gaming was pre-DS) to "niche," while systems like the Wii and DS take up the "mainstream" banner. |
Nonsense, the market was NOT mainstream at all before Wii and DS, so PS3 couldn't shift from "mainstream" to "niche". If the market was mainstream, PS3 or PSP would have had no problem selling and destroying the competition. Confusing market growth with being mainstream is retarded.
Fads have big growths too but never become mainstream, that's not the goal, they collapse even faster.
Anyway, the Kris guy is already spewing big stupid nonsense on 2nd page, and hinted at it on the 1st one.
It's funny how this journalist (is he?) is doing exactly what Malstrom described: he understands zig when in fact the Innovator goes zag. So for him, the razor is the console and the blade is Wii Sports. Basically, he has it completely backwards, which is pretty amazing.
He doesn't even understand what he's talking about anyway, as even bundled, none of Wii Sports or the Wii is sold at a loss, so there's no analogy to razor and blades.
But the best revelation is at end of 1st page. That's where you see that, despite an army of fanboys saying the contrary, or even their proponents saying the contrary, Nintendo is the ONLY company that is saving console gaming. Several people had this feeling before (me included), but now it's confirmed.
And it's sad when supposedly gamers defend these people, instead of the only ones that care about them, which is Nintendo.
I'm refering to this sentence:
"…The platforms of the next cycle may not be a console at all, but software distributed by network to convergent devices like PCs, set top boxes and smart phones."
All this because of MS (which was obvious, but many people refuse to acknowledge it to this day) and PS3 (which I didn't see coming, but I should have) strategies.
The only console left that focus on console gaming is Nintendo's one. They are trying to save their core business, console gaming, and the two others don't give a damn, and the blind supposedly "gamers" don't even see it, and drink the stupid marketing of MS and Sony.
Fortunately the journalist is wrong, just because the Wii is there to take it all in 8th gen if it goes on like this.
The part about smartphones and PC with Internet access taking the place of consoles (specifically Nintendo ones) is hilarious when took in context. Could have been with PS3 and XB360only, but unfortunately the Wii and DS destroyed the delusions of this stupid journalist, who is still stuck in pre-DS launch era.
And the analysts, this bunch of morons, represented here by Divnich! I call them morons because not a single one of them could predict the Wii's success. As it's their main job, the conclusion is obvious. So:
"Divnich says [...] Microsoft and Sony won’t abandon their current model"
Well, then I guess the 8th generation of consoles' winner is already decided.
And at the end of the article:
"In our industry, it is unlikely that the manufacturers will drop this model as it has been proven to be one of the best business models for consoles that offer more than just the ability to play videogames".
I don't know who said that, but he's a effing retard.
