FACTS vs. FICTION – Volume 1

[Yakuzaice]

johnlucas said:

FICTION: The Japanese market is irrelevant to the videogame industry.
FACT: Japan is the CAPITAL of the videogame industry.

There is one key reason why Japan is THE MOST important market in the videogame industry. It’s not because of population size since both the American & European/Rest of World regions have larger populations than Japan.
It’s not because of consumerism since no one beats the United States of America in consumerism.
It’s because Nintendo’s home base is in Japan. And since Nintendo is the ruler of the console videogaming market—the largest & most influential videogaming market in the world—what happens in Japan affects the rest of the world markets.

Nintendo recognizes Japan’s importance & will always start their strategies THERE first.
They know that the hierarchy of markets goes #1 Japan, #2 America, #3 Europe & the rest of the World.
They know that “The West” follows the influence of “The East”, that what happens in Japan influences America & what influences America influences Europe & the rest of the World.

Okay, so you've established that what happens in Japan affects the rest of the world, and Nintendo always starts their strategies there first.  Therefore if we look at the Wii U being down over 30% YoY in Japan for 2014 what can we surmise?  For some reason I doubt you'd predict the west will follow in Japan's footsteps in being down.

I also don't know how you justify the actions you claim Nintendo has taken.  Multiple times you've extolled Nintendo's power at having a simple paint job skyrocket sales.  Of course you've never said why they've only utilized this that one time with the Wii.  For some reason they intentionally gave up the profitable massive selling Wii so they could push out the unprofitable anemic Wii U.  They also have intentionally had the Wii U sell poorly in order to throw off Microsoft.  Why did Nintendo need to ditch a massively successful product in order to compete with a company that barely even has a presence in what you call the "Capital of the videogame industry"?

So now that 2014 is over, and the Wii U didn't hit 35 million, does that mean you are still holding onto your 60 million prediction for the end of this year?  If so, why do you expect it to do more in 2015 than you initially predicted?