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Forums - Sales Discussion - Nintendo feeling the heat? Apple are about to beat them at their own game

Rath on 02 February 2010

It's not Apples style to march into gaming headfirst. Apple's a fan of looking for gaps in the market, places where a product exists but isn't mainstream. They did it with computers, MP3 players, the iPhone and now with the iPad.

Gaming is very crowded and Apple will therefore not make a device for gaming, it will always be a part of the device rather than the purpose of the device that they make.



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jarrod on 02 February 2010
Egghead said:
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jarrod said:
Egghead said:

On the other hand, Nintendo has marketed itself through 'innovation,' which to its fan completely over-rides what the hardware can actually output. This is exactly what Apple have been doing, hence why followers of Apple and Nintendo are pretty two sides fo the same coin.

Eh, somewhat but that sort of misses the point.  What Nintendo's really marketed themselves on is "fun", and to a lesser extent accessibility and affordability.   Innovation is only a means to an end, and their hardware is only a vehicle for their software.   The real "value" of Nintendo isn't in DS or the Wii remote, it's in Wii Sports, Nintendogs and New Super Mario Bros.

I agree with you but Apple marketing is almost identical.

For example, they claim that Macs can do fun stuff like 'make websites' and act as if Windows based PCs cant. Same thing with Nintendo, they are claiming 'fun' but then again so are the publishers of Game Party.

You still don't get the disconnect though... Apple's strength is in their hardware and UI, Nintendo's is in their software (games).  It's not quite the same thing here.

Also, the publishers of Game Party went out of business, so I'm not sure what sort of parallel you're trying to bring there?



Bamboleo on 02 February 2010
fwap said:
Nintendo must be doing very well right now. Because somebody just created a thread saying that they are doomed.

LOLZORZS



andremop on 02 February 2010

This picture predicts the future pretty well.



fwap on 02 February 2010
andremop said:

This picture predicts the future pretty well.

This is amazing.



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c0rd on 02 February 2010

Egghead, Nintendo's strength is in their games. The reason the DS ended up selling so well was because of Nintendogs, Mario, Brain Age, and Pokemon. That cannot be beat with simply better hardware.

On the Wii, it's the same deal. Look at the latest huge system seller, New Super Mario Bros Wii. The game barely even uses motion, its appeal has very little to do with the hardware itself. How would Apple's hardware innovations replicate this? It doesn't look like there are any developers that can match Nintendo.



Metallicube on 02 February 2010

Oh no not Apple! Nintendo is TEH DOOMED!!1



Alterego-X on 02 February 2010

If having a showy presentation about a cool, high tech gadget would mean that someone is "about to beat" Nintendo, they would be beaten by just about every company.

As others said, it's all about software. No one buys gaming hardware for having features. They buy it for having the best game experience.



7Ate9 on 02 February 2010

is the thread title your prediction? id like to bet



smbu2000 on 02 February 2010

I'm not sure about the ipad, but I think the ipod touch (and probably iphone as well) cut into potential psp sales. Besides games Sony has tried to market the psp as a multimedia device(especially the psp go), but the ipod touch does pretty much everything (besides games) much better than a psp and the price (especially compared to the psp go) isn't that different.

I already have a psp 3000 myself, but I'm looking for a new portable device and the only things on my mind right now are an ipod touch or a zune hd. As a multimedia device, using my psp hasn't even crossed my mind.

Bamboleo said:
The day Apple announces a home console or portable consoles, Nintendo should be careful.

Iwata comments on mobile phones and tablet PC's are completely unnecessary since Nintendo is about videogame consoles, not that type of devices that Apple is popularizing.

And please, don't tell me that current Apple devices have the chance to become like consoles, because it is already proven by the iPhone that it just can't be.

The Apple Pippin says hi! $600 price tag on an under-powered console = 42k total sales, haha.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/111823/the-10-worst-selling-consoles-of-all-time-page-2-of-2/




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