IcaroRibeiro said: Wii U was blue ocean strategy as well. From my perspective as consumer who barely follow industry news at the time, Wii U resemble nothing to MS and Sony systems and was hardly a competiton for both. The last real red ocean system Nintendo released was Game Cube. |
Nah. WiiU was definitely no blue ocean strategy. I was there and Nintendo totally focued marketing on classic 3rd-party hardcore titles. It even seemed they expected multiplats to move the system, as they totally lacked 1st-party games at launch and in the time following. Only late in the lifetime they remembered more casual titles and brought Wii Fit U and even later the port Wii Sports Club, which for unclear reasons was download only and sold each sport separately.
3DS seems more a mixto me. It was a straight follow-up to DS, added some features that were mostly overlooked, but kept the DS features. Games were a total mix of more classic titles and others more focused on new user groups.