I got you, you little shits, "in need of both a price cut and new features to bring in mainstream gamers beyond the Halo/Call of Duty/GTA crowd". Ahh isn't that the mainstream crowd, the hardcores as we like to call them. All the others are "casuals" right? MS are screwed, and this analyst is just feeding me more ammunition. I can't wait to see MS crawl on their knees begging for those casuals to come over and play nice.
The thing that really gets to me is that they don't realise its not only a remote, but an entire marketing, advertising, customer base machine that has snowballed around Nintendo. MS as family entertainment? Apple has a better shot at hitting the casual / mainstream / softcores.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
