Apple will OUTCASUAL Nintendo - Mark my words

[Avinash_Tyagi]

justinian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

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

The ipod touch and iphone are as different as the x360 arcade and the x360 elite.

They both use the same OS and much of the same hardware.

Any game that runs on the iphone and doesn't require GPS (and not many do) can run on the ipod touch.

Your treatment of the iphone sales is disrespectful (only 21.4 million). In a market of so many cell phone manufactuers that's impressive.

The DS has one competitor, the PSP. The iphone has so many I cannot name them all.

It all comes down to money/profits. Apple has 1% of the cellphone market and makes 20% of all profits in that market, RIM is about 15% profit from 1.5% market share. Another 1.5% market share and Apple becomes biggest player in the industry by income.

Apple doesn't need market share to generate huge profits, like say MS who will literally give away consoles to achive this.

 

even including the touch, the sales are still far behind the DS, and the reason Nintendo has so few competitors, is because of their software strength, Apple having a lot of competitors just shows that they haven't created something that appeals to the majority.