| dongo8 said: But they aren't all gamers, and Nintendo is always focused on gaming FIRST, so this is why I am speculating it will hurt them. Gamers are a fickle crowd and want things how they want them. Are you saying that they will again go for a "blue ocean" strategy and try to pull in the non-gaming, mobile crowd? I'm just trying to figure out what line you are taking here : ) |
I don't know if you know this, but you and I wouldn't consider 90% of people who buy any console a "gamer." Regular people buy games, not just "gamers," and regular people are already accustom to all digital on literally every other form of media. None of them would care if the same thing happened with game consoles. Like I keep saying, the amount of people who will, come launch, never consider the NX as a viable buying option solely on the basis that it won't have physical media and nothing else is so insignificant it's laughable. The amount of people who will see the NX, want all the games that the NX, like the price of the NX, like everything else about the NX, but then say "no physical, no buy" will be so tiny, it isn't worth talking about. Most people who say they prefer physical will buy the NX as soon as their favorite franchise shows up on it. What, are 10m+ people just going to stop wanting Pokemon because they have to download it? No, they'll just shut up any buy it because they love Pokemon. Same with Mario, and Zelda, and Metroid, and everything else. Smash 5 comes out, and competitive Smash players are just gonna gonna say "fuck that. No disc, right?" Sure they will. /s
They aren't trying to gain a newly existing audience, and they aren't trying to specifically get back the Wii Sports audience, if that's what you think I'm getting at. They are simply improving on the concept of what a video game platform is, and are sure that that modernization with draw people to the NX. Just like the iPhone did and just like the iPod did. They didn't go after any blue oceans. They changed the langscape of the red ocean.
