Android and the Iphone are a threat to Sony and Nintendo good reason why !

[joeorc]

Avinash_Tyagi said:
And how is any of this a threat to Nintendo? Gaming on Iphone and Android is an afterthought, not to mention, Nintendo has the games that keep bringing in people, not to mention, Nintendo is about to launch a completely new platform which will likely see explosive growth

that may be seen as that way for some. but the problem is Now smartphones with Chips like PowerVR and Tegra Graphic's chips allow very robust graphic's on cellphones that even beat the PSP and DS. now granted it's all about the game play experience, but with capabilities of these new smartphone's they can be dedicated game machine's in their own right. and some 3rd party development studio's and publisher's are taking notice.

the Dedicated game system, just like the dedicated PDA was

when smartphone's was first on the scene, many moved on to the smartphone over the dedicated PDA.

the same may even happen to dedicated Game handhelds market share may start to feel the pinch because of it. even Nintendo with it's great game's not many people want to carry 2 handheld's at a time. the big problem is many Smartphone's have such powerful and robust hardware not even the PSP or the Nintendo DS has the capability of some of the newest Phone's.

Now i am not saying that the Nintendo DS would go completly away or anything, but the market share for gaming now that Smartphone's are more than Viable unit as portable game machine's. Many 3rd party development that only developed for the PSP. OR DS may also now fully back the smartphone's as well. which now also add's in another form of viable market split.

the Iphone and Android are such 2 smartphone platform's add in Window's mobile and now you have more Handheld's competing for gamer's $$$.