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Imperial on 16 May 2008
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yushire said:
lightbleeder said:
 

You have a point, but Nintendo execs aren't stupid, they know there is a limit of how many Wiis they can sell, and how many Wiis do you think a household need? If the family is not big then I guess just 1 Wii is enough.

I bought my HDTV for 600$ and my PS3 cost me 400$, but that's because I have money to spend. How many households do you think could afford a Wii at this price point?? 20% of US populaton doesn't have health insurance, I assume at least other 20% have a tight budget. That leaves us with 60%, of them, how many do you think are really interested in video games?

Let's assume there are 100 million households in the US (I believe 3 people per household is a good average), there would be 60 million households that could afford videogames according to my previous assumptions. Gaming is now a very popular activity, so it's safe to assume that all of the 60 million households that could spend on gaming actually do, but since there are other stuff to spend money on like HDTVs and ipods I don't believe all of those households would pay 250$ for a console, maybe 150$. That's why I believe that when Wii hits 20 million in the US, sales will drop dramatically if prices stay the same.

Well they can just drop the price when they hit their target market like 50 million sales worldwide(Their target sales for this year BTW).

OR make a new Wii in its existing technology with the current Wii like new peripheral or something but not adding a new technology to it, and let the old Wii keeps selling in a budget price.

Same as Apple did with the Ipods, Nano, shuffle, 10, 20, 30, 40 GB hard drive, video, non video but its still ipods, it still uses the same technology as the old ipod only with different names and functions.

The problem facing with gaming industry was it always change as new technology comes and they never uses the current technology in their past consoles. Thats why even the electronics and appliance division are too afraid to invest on gaming consoles.

What Nintendo want to prevent. Nintendo dont want to change and introduced new consoles every 4-5 years just to sustain the gamer's needs on what is new.

Thats why their consoles rely on existing technology because they dont want to end up like SONY and Microsoft that needs to constant remodeling/pimping their consoles every 5 years.

And yeah, there are more surprises waiting for us by Nintendo, seem theyre in control on whats going on right now...

 


 I can't say I totaly agree with your points but at least they follow a logic , you tripped up on the bolded part though. The need to change the technology wasn't because it was outdated , it was because the consumer didn't want it anymore . Nintendo could have achieved the same level of success with hardware as powerfull as the XBOX, it's the way they've innovated and utilised the technology on offer that's granted them the success they have.

Nintendo are doing great this gen for the same reason Sony/MS are doing comparitivley badly , innovation and orginiality as opposed to advancement and re-iteration.( although Nintendo is somewhat guilty of re-iteratios).