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Can the xbox change the console market ?

Yes 15 18.07%
 
No 27 32.53%
 
Lol 25 30.12%
 
I'm a core gamer and wan... 16 19.28%
 
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RenCutypoison on 22 May 2013
KungKras said:
It's going to be expensive, and try to sell in an economic depression.

It's not gonna get the low end customer. So we can safely rule out any disruption.


Nothing sells better than luxury goods and service during the crisis. Goods affected the most by crisis is food. Sad, I know.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 22 May 2013

The Wii did it, so I dont know why they cant.



RenCutypoison on 22 May 2013
Proclus said:
I'm a non gamers/casual?

Good to know.

No you're part of the 10%. Wich means I cannot meake fun of you, as a minority.



Proclus on 22 May 2013
RenCutypoison said:
Proclus said:
I'm a non gamers/casual?

Good to know.

No you're part of the 10%. Wich means I cannot meake fun of you, as a minority.

You can always try. :)



Mummelmann on 22 May 2013

It's not the new Wii, calm down everyone.



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RenCutypoison on 22 May 2013
Proclus said:
RenCutypoison said:
Proclus said:
I'm a non gamers/casual?

Good to know.

No you're part of the 10%. Wich means I cannot meake fun of you, as a minority.

You can always try. :)


Wouldn't be funny now that you said it. What do you like in the Xbox One ?



cbarroso09 on 22 May 2013

believe it or not, Wii was for the core gamers. XBOX ONE will show you that.



KungKras on 22 May 2013
RenCutypoison said:
KungKras said:
It's going to be expensive, and try to sell in an economic depression.

It's not gonna get the low end customer. So we can safely rule out any disruption.


Nothing sells better than luxury goods and service during the crisis. Goods affected the most by crisis is food. Sad, I know.

The video game market is already severely crippled by the global economy though.

But anyway, I probably made a poor argument, let me try to explain my impression of it, since I've actually read The Innovator's Dilemma.

The Xbox one gives me the vibe that it tries to be disruptive. A disruptor is supposed to evolve its disruptive technology until that technology can satisfy users of the incumbent technology, so them evolving Kinect seems like a good idea on paper. However, Kinect never really had the disruptive potential of the Wii remote to begin with. And all the bloat that Microsoft is adding to the console with media functionality is not the same as expanding upon disruptive innovation. AND they are upping the graphic up to the 8th gen standard. It's a good example of what Cristensen calles "cramming". It's like the "Hydro Hoe" that cable-driven digging machine manufacturers made to compete with fully hydraulic digging machine. All it did however was to combine hydraulics with the traditional technology, which made it appeal to neither the high-end nor the low-end.

To me, they're just trying too many different things with the console for it to be disruptive.



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dobby985 on 22 May 2013
RenCutypoison said:
spurgeonryan said:
you mean like what the wii did this past gen? Yes!


No, wii adressed casual and core gamers. They don't attract core gamers right now.

Nintendo was a strong core audience brand. Xbox is just a newborn


You're not serious are you.



hinch on 22 May 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
The Wii did it, so I dont know why they cant.

The Wii launched at $249 and had a USP. The Xbox One will come in at double that price, with just more advanced tech and nowhere near the innovation as the Wii.

I just don't see casuals picking up a $450-$499 device.. just so they can to daisy chain their consoles to cable/satellite boxes, stream things and for the other Kinect features.