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Price cut works better than Blue Ocean and Disruption alone and Malstrom can kiss Reggie's shiny metal ass if he doesn't agree!   

Malstrom's big flaw is believing that a Blue Ocean strategy precludes a strong response to a price drop. No matter what method you use to attract people, human beings understand that "Same experience+Lower Price=Better Value".

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It's the reason why I'm always tempted to bash Malstrom: he sticks too much to his rigid theories, but he should know that what makes the human kind survive is adaptability, and it applies to economy too.

I agree. He's heavy into absolutism. Looking at absolutes can be useful in an academic context, but in the real world, most absolutes lead to a failure of one kind or another. Skillful compromise is the key to success.

It's just foolish to criticize a price cut at a time when people are getting poorer and poorer, and the excesses of consumer debt are being toned down...

Also, these dont really work with the Wii. They could sell it at 299$ if they wanted and it would still sell like hotcakes. Its what all the kids/women want and its a hot hot item and will be for years to come.

It's sort of his job, and from his crusade about Nintendo's "user-generated content focus"(?) and his writings about Mario games and their worlds and content I suppose he chose a job that goes well with his attitude.

I say that it's his job because basically analysts make a bet by voicing their position and then stalwartly stand by it until they win or lose against factual confermation. Sadly, most of the time they are not judged by their accuracy rate, but only upon their success stories. Thus, the "bet all and stand by your bet" behaviour is encouraged.

The guy liked the "blue ocean" and "disruption" works and started a whole new web life by using and abusing these tools. At this point it's not about what reality truely is, it's about how much it can be constrained into the shapes his adopted theories provide.

His bet as a political analyst smashed against the solid brick wall of reality already - he foretold a big victory for McCain against Obama, and went into convoluted poll analysis to prove his point - and it's about time that his other absolutisms are put to the trial of facts.

In my opinion Malmstrom is a relic from the past. He's a crazy fanboy stuck with one theory, unable to adapt.

My views usually tend to sync with Malstrom nearly 100% (not including his occasional political "predictions"), but I think he went a little too far in this one. While I do agree that Nintendo timed this price drop at an odd time (when NSMB Wii and the holiday season would have propelled Wii sales up regardless of a price drop), I disagree that this devalues the console.. PROVIDED that Nintendo rides this $200 price point out for a long time, unlike Sony who's price seems to be dropping in freefall. I mean, the Wii has gone the longest in history without a price drop in terms of consoles. It was bound to occur sooner or later.. The consumer sees a lower priced console at a higher value, period. Doesn't matter what the Blue Ocean says.

However, Nintendo NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS to shift their focus on a stronger game library for 2010 with games that show the true potential of the Wii and the motion + now that they've used the price drop card. This is absolutely critical to Wii keeing any momentum. If they fail to do this, they could run into some problems in 2010. IF they think they can ride out the Wii's success mainly on price cuts, bundles, new colors, etc rather than focusing on games, they will be in for a rude awakening. However, I'm confident this won't be the case. 2010 is already shaping up to be a pretty good year for the Wii's library, parcicularly in the 3rd party dept. 

Even in the worst case scenario in terms of Wii's success, it'll probably end up with sales higher than NES, Nintendo's previously most successful console, which is still quite an accomplishment. However, I strongly believe the Wii has far greater potential, to reach sales of the PS2 or even beyond. It just comes down to how nintendo markets it and the amount of quality games they and third parties crank out.

Malstrom´s Theory?

It isn´t his theory, it is the theory from professor Christensen, stop saying that the disruptive innovation concept comes from Malstrom, he only does copypaste and tries to adapt it to Nintendo strategy.

I don´t believe that Christensen is wrong, I believe that Malstrom lecture hasn´t been accurate with the concepts of Disruption for one part and Blue Ocean for the other.

PD: Blue Ocean concept doesn´t come from Christensen, is another subject.