| MartinD said: 1. Build a time machine 2. Go back before this infamous E3 conference 3. Rethink the strategy and understand gamers. Used games are a critical point. I sell 1 or 2 games and buy a new one. The strategy with "no used games" or "Kinect always on" scared people away, made them laugh and say "Hey, why not the PS4? They don´t try to take my money and make a fool out of me". 4. Make better hardware that is similar to PS4 5. Invest in new IPs. No, no one cares about Fable anymore, not many will buy Halo Remake and the brand new Halo 14 or 15. |
Apple didn't win by building the strongest phone. They may've won by building the strongest mp3 player, but that's another issue.
But number 3 was it. How scary and insulated these companies are now, that you wouldn't dare hear MS blame EA, Ubisoft, etc, by name for these anti-consumer policies.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
