| TheMisterManGuy said: * Exhibit A - Sony announces the PSP in 2003, which threaten's the GBA's dominance. Nintendo responds with the announcement of the DS that same year. * Exhibit B - Nintendo rushes the DS to market in NA in November 2004, beating the PSP by about 4 months. * Exhibit C - Nintendo drastically cuts the price of the 3DS and and strategically rushes key first party titles out in time for Holiday 2011, after the PlayStation Vita threatened its existence with a more powerful system at the same price. * Exhibit D - Nintendo starts pushing motion plus for Wii, and even baking it into later versions of the Wiimote around the time Kinect and PlayStation Move rear their heads. |
A - PSP was announced in 2003. It didn't launch until March 2005. And it had no games, except for Lumines (was that a launch game?) and the terrible Ridge Racer port. Like you said in B, DS beat the PSP to market, however, it was in development since early 2003 and the rumors started at the end of 2003. I wouldn't say DS was rushed to market. And in the DSes first year it got some killer games:
Castlevania DS
Mario Kart DS
Meteos
Bomberman
Animal Crossing DS
Nintendogs
PSP may as well have been dead in the water...and it was by 2007 when the DS was still kicking ass and taking names.
C - The 3DS's problems were numerous. But again, the first party line-up wasn't that rushed in 2011. And Vita's problem was once again, no games.
D - Nintendo only pushed Motion Plus because no one was gonna buy another add-on for their Wii-motes. And by the time M+ came around, the sales of the Wii were stagnating. Believe it or not, at one point, the Wii had 49.9% market share.
