April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Angrist

The funny thing is that Nintendo has always said they're not competing with Sony/Microsoft. They're doing their own thing and their market is growing bigger than the conventional market.

We're not the ones putting together the sales comparisons that include Nintendo, we're just commenting on them. Regardless of what Nintendo says, the industry views them as a competitor.

The question isn't why Nintendo isn't competing with the rest, but why the rest isn't competing with Nintendo.

Because they're two different animals trying to accomplish different things. Gamers play games on the 360 or PS3. Gamers play the Wii itself. The games are secondary, and I think you can see that the third party developers agree...