Apple will OUTCASUAL Nintendo - Mark my words

[Avinash_Tyagi]

famousringo said:
Sorry if I came down a little heavy on you. I get frustrated when I try to correct a factual error and my facts are dismissed out of hand.

I've been up front about Apple's numbers being shipped from the start, but I find the idea that Apple shipped four million more touchscreen devices than were sold to customers in a six month non-holiday period to be implausible. Whether and how Apple's handheld platform will impact Nintendo is up for debate, but the fact that Apple's install base is growing at a rate which rivals the DS is not.

   I didn't dismiss your numbers, I just wanted real numbers and not just PR, you only provided PR numbers, not the financial, that's what I was pointing out, you were the one stating that I was in denial, when in fact you just weren't providing what I wanted, but now we have them, so we can discuss the other stuff.  On your premise about install base being a rival to DS, that only has support if a few things occur, first, what is the % of the install base that downloads games, second, what is the sales of games compared to the sales of DS software, third, does the iPhone reach as wide a demographic audience as the DS.