Apple Vice President thinks they are in the same league as Nintendo & Sony

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kitler53 said:

Resident_Hazard said:

You're guess is way off. EGM's actual numbers on installed iPhone userbase was about 6 million.  Not "tens of millions." That's an awful lot less than the roughly 85 million DS's and 40 million PSP's.  And not everyone who buys an iPhone is going to be focused on the gaming aspects, so the number is likely quite a bit less than 6 million potential iPhone gaming customers. 

 

Although, and keep this in mind as it was revealed by IGN on the Wii channel some months back, Apple patented Wiimote-like technology.  But for what purpose?  Their success with everything-i has given them money in the bank.  I wouldn't be surprised if Apple stepped in to the gaming industry in the next generation.  If they tried to come out in the current generation, they'd be buried beneath the current 3 market owners.  They wouldn't have any recognizable or important 1st party wares to compete against Nintendo, MS, or Sony, and they'd no doubt have some trouble getting 3rd party companies to actually jump on-board because they'll all already have millions invested in Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.

No doubt, they're using the iPhone to test the waters. 

source: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/IPhone_sales_exceed_BlackBerry?curid=116480

"According to tech analysts Canalys, the number of iPhones shipped in the third quarter of 2008 was 6.8 million, while RIM shipped 6.1 million BlackBerry phones"

source: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=af1af663-05e9-4f79-98de-3698ca7678cc

"Apple sold a record 6.89 million iPhones last quarter, said chief executive steve Jobs"

 

edit: i can't find sales data for the itouch which you seem to keep forgeting exists and has full access to the apps store and all of its games.

 

And these iPhone quarterly numbers are very comparable to what the DS sold in a quarter. Let me say that again, the iPhone userbase is growing at a similar pace to that of the DS! Add in iPod Touch sales and you find a platform which is growing in size faster than any console or handheld which VGChartz tracks.

Of course, the point that most people aren't buying this platform for games stands, but that is what Apple is trying to change here. Nintendo and Sony had better hope Apple doesn't manage to pull it off.

Edit: Throwing a LOL in here because I don't want to steal the last word from kitler.