Playstation 'will reclaim lead'

[Viper1]

Imperial said:

Viper1 said:

Imperial said:
I don't think the PS3's possibility of achieving first place lies more with Nintendo than it does with Sony.

The Wii has to maintain a certain level of consistency , i'm not sure if Nintendo can rely on the casual market for another 5-7 years.

Welcome to the community.

 

Are you familiar with Nintendo's disruption strategy? Think of the gaming market like a pool with a shallow end and a deep end. MS and Sony dove head first into the deep end but not everyone jumped in with them. Nintendo waded into the shallow end and had a lot of people follow (from casuals to hardcore).

The plan is to work their way up the complexity level (moving into deeper waters) via 3rd parties which at E3 you'll see the beginning of this happening.

In a couple of years time, the complexity spectrum on Wii will be from one end of the pool to the other so they won't be concentrating on just one target market.

 

As for Kaz, sounds like he inhereited more than just a title from KK.

 

 

Thank for the welcome but i'm not new , just the "lost password" function isn't working for me :(.

If you saying what I think your saying then I agree , I think the future of the Wii lies hugely in the hands  of the third party developer and with the cost's of developing on the Wii in comparison to the PS3/360 i'm pretty sure the third party developers have no problem with supporting the Wii till the end of this generation.

I was put of by the idea of Nintendo relying on 3rd party support later on in this gen because of some Nintendo fanboy's crying about how 1st party exclusives would carry the Wii until the end of this generation. 

Unfortunately even many vocal Wii fans fail to grasp what the distruption strategy encompases.

While you've downplayed the success of the DS as a barometer of Wii success, which I can understand, Nintendo themselves are using the 1st party to 3rd part sales ratio as a guide.  The first 2 years of the DS software sales were very much all Nintendo but it has been shown that 3rd parties now make up a majority of DS software sales.

 

The same strategy is in place with Wii and can already be seen if you chart software slaes for the first year with the past 6 months.  Thsi will continue as well with each year and already 3rd parties account for 60% of all Wii sales revenue.  

 

I agree that 1st party will still play a huge role in the years ahead but not to the degree it will carry the Wii themselves.  3rd parties, much like they did with PS and PS2, will do that for them.