Nintendo Wii makes Forbes’ Top 10 disrupters over last 10 years list
Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 12:21pm by Blake
From the article:
In videogaming, Nintendo was losing its dominance to Sony and Microsoft, which were investing heavily in more powerful consoles and better graphics. As their systems sky-rocketed in price, Nintendo introduced its relatively inexpensive, but profitable, Wii and made it far easier for people of all ages to play videogames. Its motion-detecting technology translates physical actions–like swinging a golf club–into virtual actions.
The company shared the honors with the likes of Netflix, Google, YouTube, and the iPod to name a few.
UPDATE: The article is five months old. Whoops!
April 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Haha. The article being so old is why I didn’t include it.
A good question to ask is why none of the game journalists spoke of it (especially for their daily blog fests). Do they just not read Forbes or what?
April 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
That one may have been old, but this one’s a little more recent:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18216
April 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
oldie but goodie- nothing like a little industry disruption to keep things fresh!