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Faelco said:
Right, because you can prove your own predictions with 1+1=2. Don't worry, I've been trained at least partially to marketing, business model, innovation and the really usual blue ocean strategy, so I can understand if you explain. From what we know about it, NX does not really follow a blue ocean strategy. An hybrid product between 2 markets does not necessarily mean a blue ocean, especially when both markets are crowded (handheld/mobile on one side, home consoles on the other). Saying "OK, we can't win on 2 markets so we'll try to make a mix of both to differentiate ourselves" isn't a blue ocean strategy, and is just a small innovation to be different. They will still compete against mobiles, PS4, Xbox and PC (and the point of the blue ocean strategy is to have ideally no competition...).
You can show us a in-depth analysis of the market and the future of the NX with all your knowledge if you want, I would be really happy to read it if you can prove anything with it. It would make a perfect post to read again in a few months/years. We could even send it to Nintendo, because they kinda missed something somewhere when they made the Wii U, so it could be useful for everyone ^^. Otherwise, if you can only talk about this knowledge and tell people to learn it, then you're just like any other video game forumer and you can continue to make predictions without "factual basis" with us ;) We're on a video game forum and a prediction thread by the way, that's the whole point. After all, you can always find clueless forumers like us who turn out to be right with their predictions, when the renowned specialists screw up most of the time... |
Was I talking to you? If you know your stuff that is awesome and I appreciate it - I really mean it. I joined these forums to discuss things and it's genuinely interesting to hear different arguments for or against the success of a console. But some posts here are clearly just written based on the poster's wishes and personal preferences for their gaming consoles - and that's the ones I've been adressing in that post.
Just don't play the arrogant-dude-on-a-forum-guy card on me. Most of what you've accused me of saying or claiming is stuff I never said or claimed to know. I don't know if NX is gonna be successful and I never said so. I don't know if it will be based on any of the strategies Nintendo used in the past and I never said so. I never said it had anything to do with Blue Ocean Strategy. I am definitely not better at knowing Nintendo's market than Nintendo themselves and I never claimed to be, even though you act as if I did. I never said I wanted to lecture people about anything, I just said at least go read some stuff before you make up things about "casuals" and "hardcores" because these are just buzzwords used for marketing. That's the whole point: Don't go around claiming you know stuff you don't know.
And don't try to make this an "you arrogant guy against us sane people" kind of argument. I'm not attacking the average poster. I'm pointing out claims based simply on personal preference that are presented as if it was totally obvious that what the poster said was true. As you said, this is a prediction thread. Not a "show us your personal preference thread". In fact, most posts written in this thread are perfectly in line with what I oh-so-arrogantly hope a post to be: A simple prediction, just like mine.
