6th April 2005, 11:23 PM
Nintendo's problem isn't about being on the bottom and trying to grab whatever to get up. Its to Nintendo's advantage that whatever makes their system unique is not copied by another so as to further put them down. With Nintendo pursuing online gaming, there won't be much difference between the gaming aspects of each of the game systems. Unfortuantely, that was the GC's only hardware deficit, in terms of the gaming aspects (not including other media crap on the side lines), which did contribute to a world of hurt to some degree.
Simple Art of War that Nintendo should keep its moves secretive where it can to afford it any advantage.
So now that every system will have the latest video technology, online gaming, HDTV support, high capacity media, what is it that is keeping the market from becoming a perfect competition market where all the consoles are essentially the same. If Sony and MS reveal systems that are cookie cutter upgrades of their previous systems that include DVD playback, high capacity media, storage capacity, online gameplay, and a regular old controller, the only thing that might set them apart is the exclusive software... and in this case MS probably will win out in the long run. Now that Nintendo will also have high capicity media and online gameplay, we can expect Nintendo to come out with a rather different controller as rumored. If all of the systems including the Revolution can support the lowest common denominator of games, and all 3rd party games can easily be ported from one system to the next, Nintendo's long run strategy of innovation might actually pay off. As opposed to randomly buying the new Xbox, or PS3, gamers might actually lean towards having a Revolution that might play all the 3rd party games, and something radically different.
And naturally the risk of revealing this early is that everyone copies your system and then the market really becomes a perfect competition market and no one really cares what system you get since they're all the same, and all the 3rd party developers won't care either since they would make about the same amount of money on any system.
Simple Art of War that Nintendo should keep its moves secretive where it can to afford it any advantage.
So now that every system will have the latest video technology, online gaming, HDTV support, high capacity media, what is it that is keeping the market from becoming a perfect competition market where all the consoles are essentially the same. If Sony and MS reveal systems that are cookie cutter upgrades of their previous systems that include DVD playback, high capacity media, storage capacity, online gameplay, and a regular old controller, the only thing that might set them apart is the exclusive software... and in this case MS probably will win out in the long run. Now that Nintendo will also have high capicity media and online gameplay, we can expect Nintendo to come out with a rather different controller as rumored. If all of the systems including the Revolution can support the lowest common denominator of games, and all 3rd party games can easily be ported from one system to the next, Nintendo's long run strategy of innovation might actually pay off. As opposed to randomly buying the new Xbox, or PS3, gamers might actually lean towards having a Revolution that might play all the 3rd party games, and something radically different.
And naturally the risk of revealing this early is that everyone copies your system and then the market really becomes a perfect competition market and no one really cares what system you get since they're all the same, and all the 3rd party developers won't care either since they would make about the same amount of money on any system.