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Nintendo Comment On Alleged Problems
Thanks to GMR Magazine for their feature interviewing Nintendo executives about alleged issues with their console strategy, as "a sentiment spreading throughout the industry holds that Nintendo is marching its own way right out of the home-console business." Perrin Kaplan of Nintendo suggests there are three ways to look at her company's position: "One would be how we are doing financially, and we're clearly No. 1. Second, where are we perceptionwise, and we suffer being third there. And then the third is the actual reality of the market share, and I'd say that we're No. 2 worldwide." She also takes Xbox to task, suggesting Microsoft's console may be too adult-oriented: "They chose to pick a certain segment of the demographic, and Microsoft is having a heck of a time expanding out of that. That's their niche, the older guy."
Simba and Ariel are ~ a decade old. Mickey and Donald don't bring in much money. Disney's cash cow is... Winnie the Pooh and the gang from the hundred acre woods.
Look at Disney's most recent attempts at new character creation: mulan, pocahontas, Hercules. Haven't seen many of those toys except at the release of the respective movies.
Disney's real profitability comes from buying senators to preserve Mickey and Donald, and lawsuits against milne's family. Oh, and outright theft in the case of Kimba...err...Simba.
What does this have to do with video games? I dunno.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Nintendo doesn't aim for kids (at least not in japan), but for the kid in you.
Are you from Soviet Russia?
Nintendo's list:
1) Something with Mario and mushrooms and cars
2) Something with Mario and mushrooms and golf
3) Something with Pokemon
4) Something else with Pokemon, but this time with GameBoy connectivity!
5) Some pacman rehash