Mnementh on 13 April 2015
| pokoko said: So, Nintendo doesn't jump into red oceans, huh? Are we going to retcon the Wii U out of existence if Nintendo's next platform is a success? On topic, I've said this before, but I think Nintendo's "fusion" is going to be a handheld that plays mobile games natively in addition to its own content. |
I agree on both.
Yes, not only the WiiU is a red ocean product, Gamecube and N64 were too. In my opinion Gameboy, NES, DS and Wii were blue ocean products. It's debatable for NES though, as two gens of homeconsole already existed, but I think Nintendo did enough differently and the market was nearly dead after the crash, so NES can count as blue ocean.
I also think a handheld playing mobile games is a possibility. 3DS already got some mobile titles ported. Puzzle&Dragons is pretty successful in that. If the next handheld allows to play Android games with minimal or no porting effort, more devs might take this chance.
