Sony’s Future Focus in the Video Game Industry The video game industry has gone through six generations of consoles‚ and the seventh is now underway with new consoles from Nintendo‚ Sony‚ and Microsoft. Atari led the first generation of the video game industry. They were able to create the first home video game Pong in 1972‚ and they were the first to develop the interchangeable cartridge and the joystick. The creation of the interchangeable cartridges allowed for third party independent video
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Analysis of the Nintendo Wii Market in 2006. Please note that an analysis is more than just a list. You need to describe each stakeholder and how they affect the strategy. • Consumers (note: there’s more than one target segment): The case notes that Nintendo targeted non-gamers in addition to gamers. This included consumers of any age and gender. Conversely‚ competitors like Sony focused on teens and males. The case also mentions moms/housewives and families as targets of Nintendo marketing. The
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Company History and Background Nintendo Company is a Japanese multinational company which was founded in 1889 to produce hanafuda cards. It is now one of the largest corporations in the video game industry. An Early Nintendo Poster The company‚ based in Kyoto‚ Japan‚ was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi and was named Nintendo Koppai. Yamauchi started off his empire by producing playing cards for a game known as hanafuda. Due to the popularity of the playing cards‚ Yamauchi needed to hire extra
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Nintendo has pursued a fundamentally different strategy and business model with the Wii console than that of its competitors‚ the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. The heart of Nintendo’s strategy was the assumption that consoles do not necessarily require leading-edge power and performance. This is a radical stance since the gaming industry traditionally competed on technological performance‚ graphic quality‚ and game realism: factors valued primarily by die-hard gaming fans. Nintendo shifted
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Nintendo – Innovation Organization Role R&D Quoting from the Nintendo Annual Report 2012‚ the company strategy is the expansion of the gaming population‚ which is to encourage as many people in the world as possible‚ regardless of age‚ gender or gaming experience‚ to embrace and enjoy playing video games. Nintendo aims to expand their digital business by offering downloadable‚ paid add-on content‚ digitally distributing packaged software and so forth to adapt in environment changes surrounding
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Promotion Nintendo knows that it has a unique and attractive product to a wide demographic at an affordable price. To generate the sales and profits that we have forecasted though will require all of the above features to be effectively communicated to our customers. This is where promotion enters the marketing mix. This mix will consist of a blend of personal selling‚ advertising‚ sales promotion‚ public relations‚ and web site. Our promotional strategy will be based on the Wii Fit target audience
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HISTORY OF NINTENDO Nintendo Company‚ Ltd is based in Kyoto Japan. They are recognized as being the "worldwide leader in the creation of interactive entertainment" (Nintendo‚ 2002‚ PG). Some of the world’s best selling video gaming has come from the Nintendo Company‚ including Game Boy and Nintendo 64. In America Nintendo is based in Redmond‚ Washington. It is interesting to note that in American households nearly 40% have a Nintendo product. The latest product launched by Nintendo has been
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Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS is one of the most successfull Nintendo console’s ever. It was released in February‚ 26th‚ 2011 in Japan. Nintendo 3DS has developed in a lot of ways from its previous model‚ Nintendo 2DS. The most noticable impovement is in its new settings‚ e.g. functions such as StreetPass and SportPass‚ which respond for various internet connection without using specific programmes‚ and ability of showing 3D effect without 3D sunglasses. Nintendo 3DS has made an enormous impact on the
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4C stakeholder’s analysis of Nintendo Wii Market in 2006 Customers: Nintendo Co Ltd (Nintendo) and its new president Satoru Iwata believed potential existence of a consumer market that distanced itself from gaming. They opined that existing games were not only difficult to understand and play‚ but also found the consoles complex to operate. The games were built more on fantasy and targeted towards traditional over 18 year old male[1] population. Nintendo made a conscious attempt to bring
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75 percent of all Game Boy users were male. If Nintendo Canada targeted teens that had used Game Boy in the past‚ they might view the Game Boy as a product that was great when they were younger‚ but not sophisticated enough to meet their current gaming needs. If he were successful in getting teens to adopt‚ this might spur sales among kids and particularly tweens‚ who often aspired to use the same products as teens. On the other hand‚ if Nintendo targeted teens and was unsuccessful with them because
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