Gnizmo on 13 April 2008
| eab said: It was a terrible failure. I look at the larger picture. 2002: Sony dominated console gaming, Nintendo was getting annihilated in sales and was loosing ground everywhere. All Nintendo really had left was handhelds, the same market they had held for the past 20 years. Sony, not comfortable with simply taking over all of Nintendo's former console market got greedy and wanted more. They wanted that hand held market and really intended to decimate Nintendo's last stand. 2003: Sony announces the PSP with the backing of dozens of studios and millions of R&D poured in. Internet forums everywhere sing of Nintendo's imminent doom. Nintendo gets worried, realizes it can't win in a head to head fight of graphics. Nintendo, now backed into a corner and faced with the real danger of loosing their last market, they turn to their engineers and innovate. The DS idea is created, Nintendo hopes for the best. 2005 It is clear now that the DS is favored over the PSP, Nintendo realizes the Blue Ocean strategy and applies it to consoles. Wii idea created. Wii destroys PS3 sales just as the DS destroyed PSP sales. Summary: If Sony never got greedy and tried to overpower Nintendo's last stand, Nintendo probably would have never been forced to innovate as much with the DS. Even if Nintendo had made the DS without Sony's pressure, they would never have known how well it could do against an overpowered rival system. Without that knowledge, the concept of the weaker Wii beating the PS3 would not have been thought up really. Sony's decision to make a PSP didn't take out Nintendo's last stand like they hoped, it instead indirectly killed the PS3. I say the PSP was a terrible failure. |
That is an interesting theory. Completely innaccurate gibberish but interesting none the less. The Wii was announced in 2004, and planning of it started in 2001. Your theory is hurt further by the fact that Miyamoto has gone on record as saying if the DS had flopper the Wii would have needed a redesign.
