Is Nintendo About To Be Dethroned?
It looks like Nintendo may finally be pulled of its perch as the No.1 videogame console company in the world. It announced April-to-September 2009 earnings, and part of the data the firm gave out is that it only sold 5.75 million units of its flagship Wii product. That compares with 10 million in the same period the year before.
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Nintendo's growth was doomed as soon as they pursued the strategy they did with the Wii.
http://seedchange.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-downside-to-market-expansion-revisited/
The segment of the expanded market they were going after was never going to buy lots of games, accessories, consoles, or handheld devices. That's why they're called casual gamers.
Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if the market wasn't such a "what have you done for me lately?" kind of animal. Nintendo gets rewarded for its ingenuity, then punished for not repeating it the next year.