Nintendo insists the iPhone isn't a competitor!

[Shanobi]

So right now we're looking at 100 million + DS units sold to gamers, versus a possible 43 million i-phone users by the end of this year, the percentage of gamers in that number being unknown.

Look, I love apple, but really this isn't even an argument. I have 4 friends with i-phones, none of whom have purchased a single game and I doubt they have any intention to anytime soon.

People buy the i-phone for phone and internet tech. I'm sure the allure of games is there for a small segment of gamers, but where are these people?

Here we are on a gaming sales website, and I have yet to ever read anything like "I love the games on my i-phone", or "you people have got to go out and trade your DS/PSP for an i-phone". Where are the threads about some killer game that is on the i-phone that we must have?

From what I can sense gaming on the i-phone is just something of an afterthought for most consumers who buy the thing.

Again, I haven't seen any evidence that it's cutting into the PSP/DS sales at all.