Sony could be concerned but I wouldn't go as far as to say they're scared. Nintendo on the other hand doesn't even notice Apple in their rear view mirror because they're simply too far back.

It may not mean anything, but the latest iteration of the DS has two main features that the iPhone made popular, namely the cameras and the apps.

They didn't release the dsi bc they were afraid, they released it for $$

Nintendo made WM+ bc they were afraid of Microsoft and Sony.

No, the touch interface is a mimic of the DS touch interface, it also costs more and is overall a hand held PC.

Gaming is just one of it's functions.

It would probably carve out the same chunk in gaming that PC does versus the home consoles; which isn't that much of a bad thing. The price range is just really up there though, but it isn't a dedicated gaming device.

If the DSi was to be used as a Camera it would be a very crappy one, if the DSi were to be used as a video gaming device it would be a very good one.

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PSP is a gaming device that attempts to be a portable multimedia device, almost like a revisit to the Walkman turned mp3 player turned UMD player (movie player).

While the ITouch is again a PC lite that's in the palm of your hand.

If anything hardware wise the PSP is moving into the Itouchs space, but someone else pointed out another perspective which was that disruption was occurring through digital distribution.

The thing is that the success of the PSP to for what I can see is leading to the reason why the PC was so successful versus the Macs.

PC is a crappy Mac as PSP is a crappy Itouch in every sense except the touch interface. V_V The accessibility issue could be the Itouchs silver bullet though.

All in all, who should be sweating?

Apple and Nintendo, as both of them are doing things that they don't know if it will work.

Parents are not gonna buy their kids a phone or let them go on app store and buy shit.

Look at the arguments being used, though: "It doesn't have the depth of these items, the graphics are subpar." A quick little comparison with the console market makes it kinda obvious how much merit these arguments have

I think its a more fundamental issue of the fact that its a phone, and even its app section is much more diverse than gaming, so it'll be very hard for it to move beyond a niche thing, and then the fact that its a phone, entailing monthly subscription fees, and is a rather pricy device to boot. These are the important arguments here.

I don't see the iPhone as a threat to the gaming industry leader Nintendo. Reason being Nintendo is a company that made a handheld gaming machine strictly to game. Not all those extra accessories that Sony and Apple are touting on their platforms. The people I know that own iPhones rarely play games on it. They do however download applications on the unit and use those i.e. Facebook, Myspace.

yeah right, you seen what happened to mgs on iphone

Meh, they shouldn't nintendo has the handle market locked.They won't lose ever!

 I'm just glad you didn't say NEVER there!