| kowenicki said: @kantor that slightly misses the point... if you have a phone that has some decent games and you are a casual gamer... why look elsewhere? brain training, nintendogs... easy on the iphone. sony and nintendo will not be anywhere near as flippant about the iphone as you are. |
I think you're hoping the Iphone overtakes the DS, so much that you're forgetting that just being able to emulate Nintendo's games doesn't work, if it did, there'd be other companies selling 20 million units of their games.
The point is, while the Iphone may get people to play, its not going to be their primary gaming device, it doesn't have the software, at best its the platform people will use when they don't have their DS around, and want to do a little gaming.
However when it comes down to it, they'll still have a DS, because at the end of the day, Nintendo just has the games that draw in people by the millions
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
