Apple will OUTCASUAL Nintendo - Mark my words

[Avinash_Tyagi]

famousringo said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
ROFL, just proves people don't get it, Apple can try all they want, but they'll never be able to break into Nintendo's market, there is a reason Nintendo sells more DS's than Apple sells iPhones, because Nintendo doesn't try and causualize, they try and create games that appeal to the entire audience. Apple isn't a gaming software company, they'll never get that

Just so you know, the DS isn't actually outselling the iPhone/iPod Touch. Apple's platform is actually selling at about the same pace as the DS right now, which is pretty remarkable when you consider that the first iPhone model only launched 27 months ago.

In fact, if you launch-aligned the DS with the iPhone/iPod Touch, Apple is 13 million or so units ahead of the DS at this point in its life, and 5 million or so ahead of the Wii. This is comparing Apple's shipped numbers to VGC sell-through numbers, so the gap isn't actually that big, but I think it's worth noting that Apple is actually moving handheld devices faster than Nintendo, and is poised to move into the potentially huge market of China.

There's no question in my mind that the two platforms are heading for a clash, but I really have no idea how its going to play out. There might be enough differentiation that the two products can co-exist relatively seperate just like consoles and PCs, or people might be lining up to buy N-Phones in a couple years because they only want to carry one device with them.

   iPod touch and iPhone are two different pieces of hardware, as of March 2009, 21.4 million iPhones had been sold, it launched in june of 2007, so in about 2 years it had only sold 21.4 million units