Gaming's worst marketing/business decisions?

[zorg1000]

Intrinsic said:

zorg1000 said:

Just doing what others are doing is not a gaurantee for success, that's like saying if you want to have success in the Smartphone market than just make a product similar to Apple's iPhone or Samsung's Galaxy, it's not that simple. Just because Nintendo releases a console similar to Sony or Microsoft's doesn't mean that people are going to buy it.

In the 30+ years of Nintendo making hardware, their success has always come down to exclusivity, software/features that can't be found on other platforms, how many multiplatform games can you think of that have had a strong effect on hardware sales? I'm guessing it's very few.

Come on man of course just doing what everyone is doing isnt going to gaurantee success. Did you read what i said? 

I said it would at the very least gaurantee that eveey gsme also comes to your platform. Then you can build on that, release your own exclusives and add on whatever platform defining feature  you want to add. 

Using ur phone analogy, this is more like you at least build a phone that can recieve and male calls like an iphone. That will excel at the core things that a phone is supposed to be able to do, then you can throw in an iris scanner and horny sensor to differentiate yourself. But what nintendo does is more like, they will make a phone that can only make calls if u put it in water. 

Yes, I read what you wrote, "how about they "just make what third parties want" which will at the veey lesst gaurantee that all gsmes are ALSO available on their platform".

How do they do that without making a device very similar to what the others are doing? What it comes down to is that you believe Nintendo needs to release a console with the same storage format, similar specs, similar controller & similar system features as PS/XB have in order to succeed or in other words, just do what the others are doing.