It's telling that Iwata-san said that Nintendo have been lucky, I don't believe for one second that they were prepared for the huge success of the DS and the Wii.
Well, there was no way anyone knew the Wii could have been a succes so fast. No one knew how big the market was untill Nintendo tapped it, even Nintendo itself. Nintendo knew it was making a disruptive product, and disruptive products do not pick up steam after a certain period, which they knew as well.
If you had a checklist for disruptive products, the Wii checks them all off except for it's immediate succes. Maybe that shows how much traditional gaming was overshooting a lot of people and leaving them cold, even with small depth charges like Eyetoy, The Sims and Pokemon.
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Well, there was no way anyone knew the Wii could have been a succes so fast. No one knew how big the market was untill Nintendo tapped it, even Nintendo itself. Nintendo knew it was making a disruptive product, and disruptive products do not pick up steam after a certain period, which they knew as well.
If you had a checklist for disruptive products, the Wii checks them all off except for it's immediate succes. Maybe that shows how much traditional gaming was overshooting a lot of people and leaving them cold, even with small depth charges like Eyetoy, The Sims and Pokemon.