| dtewi said: And what is disruption in general? I always hear that Nintendo is using it and the other two fear it, but what is it? I am guessing that it is releasing a new product that is different to the others and threatens to destroy the others. |
Basically, release a new product that approaches things differently in a way more people would want rather then just improve upon what is already there.
The approaching things differently allows you to reach more people, without spending more money on upgrading... etc.
Basically what's happening is disruption. The Wii being different is what is making it a big deal, instead of focusing on things like graphics and higher specs which have been the "industry standard."
The tier thing is basically a following of the DS. A lot of people will buy it for the simple games with low development times, and overtime the developers will go "upstream" adding more and more hadcore titles.
Since the "downstream" titles have the higher fanbases this lets you maximize your userbase faster. Also said people who normally wouldn't get a console do to people starting off upsctream will try different types of games and some of them may find that they enjoy platformers, adventure games RPGs etc... and are pulled upstream themselves enhancing the market.
Or so are the theoreis.
