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."

Comments

XBOX adult oriented?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well duh, everyone knows the XBOX is not japan oriented. (this is a bad thing)

Ask yourself this simple question...

[Mike Hawk]

If they are doing so well, why do they keep explaining themselves?

Apple hasn't had to give a bunch of interviews about why iTunes and iTMS is being perceived as unsuccessful.
Sony doesn't have to give a bunch of interviews about the PS2's perceived failure.
EA isn't out talking to everyone about the perceived poor reception of Madden '04.

Of course they have had to explain themselves for EA.com plenty of times. Quite the parallel I'd say.

People and companies don't explain themselves unless they have explaining to do. I love how they always talk about worldwide terms on the Nintendo side. I don't live worldwide, I live in the US. EA, Activision, THQ, Take-Two, these are not worldwide companies and don't care about the Gamecube's success or failure in Japan. They want consoles in the houses in the US and Europe and Nintendo just isn't delivering.

If they didn't have explaining to do, they wouldn't be doing these interviews. Period.

Re:Rated "E" mean "Everyone"

[Mike Mentalist]

Oh, puu-leeze. The only people concerned with "looking adult" are teens who are so worried about looking like a kid that they deny themselves fun things because a kid might enjoy them too. Real adults have stopped caring about whether or not we look like kids and will do fun things because they are fun.

This is a total myth. I know plenty of people who regard Nintendo consoles as being for kids, and they are in their late 20's or 30's.
You may as well try and argue that most adults sit down and watch cartoons all the time.

In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays you

[yerricde]

Nintendo licensed a video game invented by a Soviet Russian as the pack-in for its Game Boy handheld system. The simplicity of Tetris possibly accounted for much of the popularity of Game Boy (that, and the competitors ate batteries like Pac-Man).