Normally I would leave Mr. Malstrom's posts to "The Malstrom Thread", but this latest one I feel is important enough to have its own discussion.

I'm not copying the whole thing here (again, that's for the other thread), just the relevant part.

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So do you agree or disagree this is a direct move against Sony?

i agree. nintendo is making a crappy product for crappy customers to undershoot sony's expensive $3000 tv's that need goggles. sony is yet again overshooting the market, and is gon na pay the price.

Nintendo is surely dangerous in business. Sony tried to do with Nintendo DS what PS2 "has done" to the GameCube. In fact, PS2 did nothing to GC (in terms of market stealing: the PS did it with 64), as well PSP not only did nothing to DS, but was also crushed by its huge success (no offense, PSP followers, but we must be honest: PSP never posed as a threat to DS).

I'm curious to see what Apple guys have to say about it, as Iwata already stated their next arch-nemesis is Steve Jobs' commercially successful iPhone/iPad.

I don't think Nintendo is directly revolving around Sony. Maelstrom is contradicting himself(and again taking jabs at UGC, so childish). First he says Nintendo is doing it's own then while saying that companies aiming for the sole purpose to disrupt another company fails. 

I think Nintendo is going to do there own thing, but given the opportunity will make attacks.

The point of disruption isn't to completely ignore the competition. The blue ocean is that. But disruption means using the blue ocean to start disruption, and then moving in.

And if you don't agree with his stance on UGC, first of all this isn't the thread for that (take it to the Malstrom thread), and second of all, calling it "childish" is not a response. Tell us why you don't think his stance on UGC is incorrect.

Its not only a dierct attack. Its even an attack on the WEAK POINT for MASSIVE DAMAGE

But where is the real time weapon change?

I'm pretty darn confident this is not accurate: the two concepts stand alone, although they can be used in combination.

Totally wrong

Not really as much as a company who can afford to dump their products for years to gain market share or advertise them on biggest sports events for decades...Nintendo is not nearly as dangerous as sony, it's just smarter.

3DS is of course a direct move agaist sony since they are the only direct competitors....but I don't see how the Wii was a move agaist sony at any level, different target, different price, different features, different controls, different type of games.....If ever it's Microsoft going direclty against ps3 releasing the conlose one year before, with a more competitive price, offering similar features, stealing exclusives....not to mention that both Microsoft and Sony are the ones going directly against Wii with Move and Kinect.

Many people may not see it now but I think so