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Strategic Management Professor : Yuri Mishina 12-12-2013 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 3 Industry Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Threat of New Entrants ................................................................................
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community. Due to the rise in competition, Sony has to keep on innovating in order to keep attracting current/new customers. Using Porter’s five forces analysis this paper will identify the issues Sony faces in the marketplace. For the sake of simplicity I will focus on Sony’s latest game consoles: the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis: Bargaining Power of Suppliers: As Sony is quite a large corporation this means that they also have a considerable supplier database. The advantage
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Wii: Creating a Blue Ocean. The Nintendo Way ÁREA MARKETING ESTRATÉGICO Wii: Creating a Blue Ocean The Nintendo Way Patricio O’Gorman1 RESUMEN Durante la última década, Nintendo ha tenido serias dificultades para mantenerse a flote en el mercado ultra-competitivo de los video-juegos. Su suerte se revirtió solamente cuando modificaron radicalmente su estrategia (creando un Blue Ocean), cambiando así las reglas del juego. Con el lanzamiento de la Nintendo Wii a fines del 2006, recuperaron
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Sony Corporation and the Video Game Console Market: 1 A Competitive Analysis By Ryan Bogner, Peter Hung, Guan Wang, and Steven Wang This report evaluates Sony Corporation’s strategy in the console gaming market from the top-down perspective of the entire corporation. 1 Executive Summary Sony’s current strategy in the video game console market is simple: use the technologically superior Playstation 3 as a loss leader to introduce the Blu-ray optical drive2 into consumers’ homes and leverage
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Sarah Van Wyk MKT/421 April 19, 2015 Professor Phyllis Levith Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Blue ocean strategy is a business tactic that separates the market into “blue” and “red” oceans. Blue oceans relate to all of the industries that do not currently exist in today’s society. They are the “unknown market space, untainted by competition, where demand is created rather than fought over” (W. Chan Kim, 2004). In direct contrast to this notion are red oceans, which relate
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Sony Corporation and the Video Game Console Market: 1 A Competitive Analysis By Ryan Bogner, Peter Hung, Guan Wang, and Steven Wang This report evaluates Sony Corporation’s strategy in the console gaming market from the top-down perspective of the entire corporation. 1 Executive Summary Sony’s current strategy in the video game console market is simple: use the technologically superior Playstation 3 as a loss leader to introduce the Blu-ray optical drive2 into consumers’ homes and leverage
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a different name, SNES CD) was actually brought up in a joint partnership with Sony and Nintendo in the late 80’s; however, when the time came to announce their new hardware, Nintendo re-read over their earlier contract and found the agreement to no longer be satisfactory. As a result, Sony took all the research they had done and began work on the Sony Playstation. 3 Table of Contents Situation Analysis .......................................................................................
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a different name, SNES CD) was actually brought up in a joint partnership with Sony and Nintendo in the late 80’s; however, when the time came to announce their new hardware, Nintendo re-read over their earlier contract and found the agreement to no longer be satisfactory. As a result, Sony took all the research they had done and began work on the Sony Playstation. 2 Table of Contents Situation Analysis ......................................................................................
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generation of video game consoles Nintendo has released the Wii. Nintendo very boldly announced they would not be competing with Microsoft and Sony when releasing this console. The console incorporates low specialization in hardware but high specialization in software (Datamonitor, 2008). A new style of game play has been incorporated with fully motion sensing controllers, dubbed “wiimotes.” Software is targeted towards a wide variety of ages and many markets. Nintendo recognized internal advantages
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