Won't an industry with each of the major competitors employing a Blue Ocean strategy result in maximized growth, with none of them interfering with the other one?  Other marketspaces get assaulted, but not the space they are all in.

You could say the same for sony for 2 gens.

Nobody beats Nintendo when they are being Nintendo. Motion control is Nintendo's domain now.

You kids weren't around to see what happens to companies that challenge Nintendo at what they do best. Sony got lucky and combined with Nintendo making an overly complex controller and abandoning their fans by dumping 2d Mario in favour of the "hardcore" cost them. Well it didn't actually cost them because they still made a profit unlike certain conglomerates that can piss money down the drain to hijack gaming for their own ends.

You kids might not remember something called a Gameboy, it killed all challengers with it's casual shades of green. You think HD means anything compared to different shades of green V colour?

Nintendo is going to continue to put it's biggest IPs onto the motion control stage while MS and Sony half heartedly tack it on.

The 3DS is just a taster of what Nintendo can do to the competiton. I'd love to see Nintendo crack open their 26Billion dollar warchest. How many timed exclusives would that buy? 

Edit: Not that Nintendo needs timed exclusives because they can make first party games.

I simply thought the video was funny :/

Nintendo doesn't seem to have an interest in the moneyhatting approach.  They just roll out their first party stuff and get the bulk of the sales.  What they do look to do, is create systems that developers can get interested in, and will do stuff.  They likely listened to third-party developers outside of Nintendo's internal, and made the 3DS something they would get excited over and create games for.

Nintendo, at its roots, is a game company, that has a history over 100 years (first started with playing cards).  They know and understand play, and how to put stuff that delight and captivate.  They have been rocked in the recent past, but seemed to learn from it.  They have acted as leaders along the way, showing class to... this time around.

Playing cards are one of the earliest examples of how important software is to hardware. Nintendo know it like nobody else. Who cares whether plastic or paper cards are best if you don't have the rules/instructions/code to play the best games?

Motion controls?

But I thought they were a gimmick?

Have Nintendo ever lost a home console or handheld gen when they've used NES/SNES controls combined with 2D Mario?

Nope.

That's not condescending, just facts. Granted Sony paid for a lot of games but this gen has shown that Nintendo can win all by itself with simple controls and 2d Mario.

Entering the motion control arena is like challenging Nntendo in the handheld arena or trying to create a better 2D or 3D platformer.

 You're gonna lose and be lucky to still be in business at the end of it. It's Nintendo law.

I already explained why they 'lost' (but still made more profit than MS and Sony combined for the past 2 gens). They became un-Nintendo. They dropped 2D Mario and games now needed half an hour just to get used to the controls. 

The fact that they survived the greedy transition to CDs and still provided Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, the analog stick and rumble just goes to show how much of an effort it is to try and compensate for 2D Mario. Only Nintendo could survive and profit.