That's kind of hard to claim, from what I remembered Famicom was the dominant company with the G&W, NES and SNES in Japan but were rooted in Japan pretty easily by Sony... of course Sony was pretty popular in Japan then anyway. Should Nintendo make their claim in China history would say a company similar to Sony in popularity ie. UF Software or Scrum(French) could within one blow claim the market lead in China.
Theirs a bit more to it of course then - for example the demographic for software: Look back at what was bundled with the PS1 and the Wii, (I'm sure we all know about the sport package similarity between the Wii and Nes.) But if memory serves the PS1 came packaged with a demo - that gave exposure to what the PS1 was about:
The point was diversity, granted only Pa-Rappa was cool (I know, I know) that marked what you could expect aside from what you probably already knew about that platform.
The Wii pretty much did the same thing, using Wii Sports to say this is what you just bought we hope you like it. From there it was a well orchestrated snow ball effect of software, they were almost like value meals, a single game would have several games on it - if it was fun then so be it.
Shigeru did note that he wanted to make a controller that uses one button so yes the simplified controller has always been at the top of their list, but this single button thing (Your category F) falls under the Wiisports category. Your Category C also falls under Wii sports (I understood it as that group wanted simplified gaming.) Your Group D is what is known or part of it is known as Core Gamers, but that could mean that your Group E would be the ones that require also visual realism?
So to make a summary the only group not being targeted would F...
If what ‘Sean Malstrom’ said is true you need to take into account what is high and low teir at the start of the disruption. Your graph is kind of weird because it claims that as the years go by the market went from Niche to Everyone – I’m concluding the perception being that because of the over all amount of people buying video games had increased during the PS2 era; that over time games were moving away from niche. To counter that I’d (yes counter) claim that people with the same likes and dislikes fall within the same niche, pursuing something else within the gaming industry (niche in itself) to like is development of another niche, universe of gaming became larger but what if it became larger with a specific one of those niche’s not several others. (High tier)
To expand on that I believe your saying that realism was what everyone wanted or closer to it. If your graph is suggesting that Group E is a composition of people from all the prior groups since group B&C were trying to convince group D(E) to join in on the fun.
(Unless it’s just saying; that group was the group that was mainstream at that time.)
No the point of the thread was could Nintendo be disrupted.
Answer of course they can be disrupted, think what do people do normally (people with money) that you can toss a console into without interfering with what is in the environment (or replacing something else), some people have said proper eating which is a good one actually, depending on the interface and the goal of the software involved.
Can you imagine having fun while eating at a table with some video game with your family (The chair or some fork or maybe a single pressure pad could be the interface.)
Also group A is the arcade gaming group?
Either way if my interpretation was correct, all those groups have been receiving proper attention. I conclude that map of gaming is going to just get bigger and bigger, as time goes on and more things start getting in the way to…. Wait I think all of the above minus the 3rd and 4th paragraphs were baseless now as I am certain I don’t understand that graph…
Finally – Sony and Microsoft are going to have a hard time competing with Nintendo, also Sony’s PS3 market isn’t shrinking it’s expanding… at least everywhere but Japan. Nintendo’s Wii is just out there right now. Microsoft is still new to a very complex market but their not doing badly at all considering their competition.
To Disrupt Nintendo is to not compete with them directly – what do you think Sony/Microsoft are doing… but their doing it from high tier down… theirs something else aside from disruption going on… I’ll end here.
For the record this was longer, I condensed it – I’m just hoping it makes sense.
