4) Just like before because piracy is not that big of a problem and only gets pointed at to tell shareholders "with the right DRM we'll see MASSIVE GROWTH and be rich!"
Sounds more like a need for more banstick wielding, shouldn't be too hard to thwack the spammers when they post a spam message in something like LFG, banstick them on the first message and since I don't think Aion accounts are free that should put a dampener on it.
Yes, there's always another innovation involved. Whether it's a new business model or a new technology, it's usually something that further reduces the cost or massively increases the product's appeal (think Wii motion controls). A crucial part is that the innovation must look harmless to the incumbent by performing pretty badly compared to existing products by the old metrics and going where the incumbent doesn't WANT to go (telephone vs telegraph, the telephone was seen as inferior and unfit for the telegraph's customers at first).
Then the incumbent will not fight and instead cede markets that are contested until the challenger takes up a dangerous amount of marketshare. Then the incumbent usually counterattacks by attempting to co-opt the invention. If the asymmetry of motivation is properly in place the incumbent will not be willing to really deliver what he perceives as an inferior device and we see cramming: The incumbent attempts to build the innovation into his existing product (perfect example: Sony Sixaxis controller, motion controls crammed into a controller shape that did not compromise its old functionality one bit while the Wiimote was designed to be easier to wield in one hand) instead of designing something new and entirely fit for the challenger's market. The incumbent's steps make the most business sense from his perspective but the inevitable result is that he is marginalized while the challenger eats more and more of the incumbent's market.
It fails if the asymmetry of motivation doesn't exist, if the incumbent has no reason to avoid the primary values that the challenger is pushing, a suspected example here is the Flip vs the iPod, Apple sees the value in a really simple camcorder and thus will not fail to offer the key values that the Flip's customers are looking for.
The funny thing is that the incumbent will be perceived to be too big to fail and when a recession comes along that tends to break the shaky financial situation of disrupted incumbents they often end up bankrupt.
Yeah, with all the lockable cockpit doors and whatnot I've always been wondering how feasible it would be for a terrorist organization to get pilots hired into an airline and have them be on the same flight on attack day, engage all the anti-hijacking measures and then go fly into whatever they feel like.
You mean they take you out the back door, tie you to a post and beat you until you pass out, then lock you up and continue that until you die instead of passing out?
You have to show your passport at EU internal borders? I've only seen that at the borders to the extended EU, not the 15 old countries. You just drove along the road and at some point a sign proclaimed you're now in France or whatever.
The funny thing is that this is on topic because the Innovator's Dilemma is strongly based around people thinking that things are good enough and an innovator cutting back in the overshooting areas and instead focusing efforts on either the price or other areas (or even both). The netbooks are an example of where laptops were overshooting the customer and the smaller machines brought benefits through their size, the incumbent companies brushed it off as weak crap but the customers didn't really need more than that. Meanwhile the netbooks are growing in capability and eating into the full sized laptop market.
Most of the game industry only cares about their game designer's vision or copying what was popular, very, VERY few companies actually look at the customer's needs and quite a few are actually going against the customer with their anti-used-game shit and whatnot.
The PC has no region locking (outside of some hackjobs used in some Japanese rape games) and yet people don't import the more-naked-boobies versions of games like The Witcher from Europe to the US.
The Wii's regions are NTSC-U (North America), NTSC-J (Japan) and PAL (Europe and Australia), where can you get 5$ games (not counting bargain bins) in those regions?
It doesn't prevent confusion, the Wii acts like the disc is broken and someone who doesn't know about region locking would be more confused about that than about finding a game that doesn't support his language.
What? Why would it be illegal to issue a patch for the system firmware? It doesn't even auto-update without you telling it to, if you don't want the patch you don't need it.
In revenue maybe, not in customer numbers. I'd also like a comparison of the average revenue per product because it looks to me like vastly more videogames hit stores than movies.
People always keep claiming that the Wii audience is fickle but there is no evidence to support it (the dropping sales? I wouldn't call dropping sales due to no major games for over a year fickle).
The Wii comes at least with Wii Sports, the other consoles can be found with free games if you shop around. I wouldn't really use Braid as a comparison since it's a cheap indie game and there aren't many games like it on the consoles so for the most part the console gives you access to a library of games you can't get that cheaply on the PC.
Yeah, open sourced games. Both of those were commercial at first and only opened later, those games have paid professionals working on their creation. Most unpaid open source games are horribly derivative and usually ugly and unintuitive.
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4) Just like before because piracy is not that big of a problem and only gets pointed at to tell shareholders "with the right DRM we'll see MASSIVE GROWTH and be rich!"
Sounds more like a need for more banstick wielding, shouldn't be too hard to thwack the spammers when they post a spam message in something like LFG, banstick them on the first message and since I don't think Aion accounts are free that should put a dampener on it.
In a country with an extradition treaty with the US?
US based writers tend to give themselves away with their bad English (e.g. inability to tell the difference between there/their/they're).
Yes, there's always another innovation involved. Whether it's a new business model or a new technology, it's usually something that further reduces the cost or massively increases the product's appeal (think Wii motion controls). A crucial part is that the innovation must look harmless to the incumbent by performing pretty badly compared to existing products by the old metrics and going where the incumbent doesn't WANT to go (telephone vs telegraph, the telephone was seen as inferior and unfit for the telegraph's customers at first).
Then the incumbent will not fight and instead cede markets that are contested until the challenger takes up a dangerous amount of marketshare. Then the incumbent usually counterattacks by attempting to co-opt the invention. If the asymmetry of motivation is properly in place the incumbent will not be willing to really deliver what he perceives as an inferior device and we see cramming: The incumbent attempts to build the innovation into his existing product (perfect example: Sony Sixaxis controller, motion controls crammed into a controller shape that did not compromise its old functionality one bit while the Wiimote was designed to be easier to wield in one hand) instead of designing something new and entirely fit for the challenger's market. The incumbent's steps make the most business sense from his perspective but the inevitable result is that he is marginalized while the challenger eats more and more of the incumbent's market.
It fails if the asymmetry of motivation doesn't exist, if the incumbent has no reason to avoid the primary values that the challenger is pushing, a suspected example here is the Flip vs the iPod, Apple sees the value in a really simple camcorder and thus will not fail to offer the key values that the Flip's customers are looking for.
The funny thing is that the incumbent will be perceived to be too big to fail and when a recession comes along that tends to break the shaky financial situation of disrupted incumbents they often end up bankrupt.
I had a 486 with 60MHz overheat and die after the cooling fan failed.
Yeah, with all the lockable cockpit doors and whatnot I've always been wondering how feasible it would be for a terrorist organization to get pilots hired into an airline and have them be on the same flight on attack day, engage all the anti-hijacking measures and then go fly into whatever they feel like.
You mean they take you out the back door, tie you to a post and beat you until you pass out, then lock you up and continue that until you die instead of passing out?
You have to show your passport at EU internal borders? I've only seen that at the borders to the extended EU, not the 15 old countries. You just drove along the road and at some point a sign proclaimed you're now in France or whatever.
I bet most people don't even know that there's a USB logo and if it was missing wouldn't care.
The funny thing is that this is on topic because the Innovator's Dilemma is strongly based around people thinking that things are good enough and an innovator cutting back in the overshooting areas and instead focusing efforts on either the price or other areas (or even both). The netbooks are an example of where laptops were overshooting the customer and the smaller machines brought benefits through their size, the incumbent companies brushed it off as weak crap but the customers didn't really need more than that. Meanwhile the netbooks are growing in capability and eating into the full sized laptop market.
Most of the game industry only cares about their game designer's vision or copying what was popular, very, VERY few companies actually look at the customer's needs and quite a few are actually going against the customer with their anti-used-game shit and whatnot.
Then you update your Homebrew Channel before updating the firmware and get both.
The PC has no region locking (outside of some hackjobs used in some Japanese rape games) and yet people don't import the more-naked-boobies versions of games like The Witcher from Europe to the US.
The Wii's regions are NTSC-U (North America), NTSC-J (Japan) and PAL (Europe and Australia), where can you get 5$ games (not counting bargain bins) in those regions?
That's not the kind of syrup we're talking about, in the US they use corn syrup instead of sugar in that syrup.
It doesn't prevent confusion, the Wii acts like the disc is broken and someone who doesn't know about region locking would be more confused about that than about finding a game that doesn't support his language.
What? Why would it be illegal to issue a patch for the system firmware? It doesn't even auto-update without you telling it to, if you don't want the patch you don't need it.
Nintendo can transfer that data for you.
Yet the moment you include naked boobies in a game you can get in trouble for distributing pornography...
In revenue maybe, not in customer numbers. I'd also like a comparison of the average revenue per product because it looks to me like vastly more videogames hit stores than movies.
Sin taxes are stupid. They allow rich people to "sin" more.
People always keep claiming that the Wii audience is fickle but there is no evidence to support it (the dropping sales? I wouldn't call dropping sales due to no major games for over a year fickle).
The Wii comes at least with Wii Sports, the other consoles can be found with free games if you shop around. I wouldn't really use Braid as a comparison since it's a cheap indie game and there aren't many games like it on the consoles so for the most part the console gives you access to a library of games you can't get that cheaply on the PC.
Yeah, open sourced games. Both of those were commercial at first and only opened later, those games have paid professionals working on their creation. Most unpaid open source games are horribly derivative and usually ugly and unintuitive.