Nintendo surrenders and a win for PlayStation and Xbox – Part 1
The Interactive Entertainment (read, ‘video game’) Industry is a fiercely competitive one, with brand loyalties and exclusive titles the major difference makers when it comes to one company’s share of the market.
The age of the next generation of consoles is nearly upon the gaming community and the world, with Nintendo making the first move by announcing their follow-up to the Nintendo Wii with the Nintendo Wii U.
Microsoft are widely regarded as the more likely of the other two consoles to announce their next generation console soon, with Sony apparently taking their time and teasing bits and pieces.
With the current generation of consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii, nearing their closing stages it is a good opportunity to take a look back and the current generation of consoles and see how their sales and performance have and will influence the next generation.
Each console seemed to have a different objective as Sony went for Evolution with their Blu-Ray Disc Format, Nintendo went for Revolution with its motion controls and Microsoft went for enhancement by dishing out a more powerful machine.
The early advantage was with Nintendo and their Wii, which took the gaming world by storm. Everyone wanted a taste of the console and it’s revolutionary, easy to pick up and play, family oriented way of playing games.
It was the ultimate party gaming console with a fresh new approach to how people played games. In fact, the Nintendo Wii outsold both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 consoles in its first few years.
Since then however, things have not been going too well for Nintendo as their handheld portable gaming device, the Nintendo 3DS, sold terribly.
This prompted the company to not only re-estimate its initial sales forecast and result in its executives taking a massive pay cut, but it also had to cut the prices of the 3DS in order to make up for the loss.
In fact, the company seemed to drop its innovative approach to gaming in favour for the more conventional style which the other two consoles utilized.
The Wii U has made the move to High Definition graphics, which was a logical step in the console’s evolutionary process, however, it the console design and implementation itself seemed to lack the imagination and creativity of the Wii.
The response was devastating for the company as Nintendo’s stock prices fell by five-percent on each of the two days following the Wii U’s announcement. It seemed to be just another console now, instead of the quirky, easy and fun to play box of joy that was its predecessor.
Event the Nintendo 3DS had to rethink and reinvent itself by adding another joystick to its schematics. A move most likely brought about as a result of Sony making the move first with its next generation potable gaming device, the PlayStation Vita.
It seems that Nintendo has gone from the innovative, trend and pack leader, to a company which is trying to keep up with its other competitors and seems to have lost its inspiration. Something which every gamer should be worried about.
Read on in http://www.senore.com/Nintendo-surrenders-and-a-win-for-PlayStation-and-Xbox-Part-2-a115003
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