Apple thinks they are competing with DS/PSP, launches Game Center

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dharh said:

Ail said:

You don't buy an Iphone to game.
You buy it as a phone and internet surfing portable and then you discover gaming on it thats why the price comparison is meaningless...

The Iphone is a phone that does gaming on top for almost free, if you look at it that way the price comparison isn't so bad anymore...

The people they will mostly attract are those new or coming back to gaming, the same way Nintendo did with the Wii.

Apple won't steal current DS and PSP customers, they will steal the future ones...

In that sense they are not so much competing with the DS as with the successor of the DS...

^This is basically how it will go down. I'm not going to sell my DS/PSP just because I get an iPad or buy games. However, I know that the iPad/Pod will take up more of my time. More of my time that could be spent on the DS/PSP. Pretty soon I won't even bring my DS/PSP because the iPad/Pod is good enough to entertain me.

That's a possibility, but people who live in US, well, too US-centric. Look abroad. Nintendo has an experience dealing with gaming on mobile phones in Japan where it's massive and keeping handheld business relevant. Back in 2000-2001 in pre-GBA days, gaming media was too much concerned with rising tech specs of mobile phones, predicting that handheld consoles would vanish unable to compete with affordable technology that sells in millions and have very cheap or even free games available online and comparable in quality with those on Game Boy. DS was partially an answer to those claims and threats from below as wel as threat from above - PSP.