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Azelover on 11 April 2010
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richardhutnik said:
FaRmLaNd said:
Haste262 said:

I cant consider apple competitors, because well....they aint. Just look at the damn games for iphone, theyre not exactly proper games now are they?

Plenty of people said the same thing about Nintendos casual software in the beginning. Its irrelivant if you consider them proper games or not, they are games and they are selling and Apple is making big bucks without really even trying because its all the 3rd parties and independants doing the work for them.

Although I do not thing the mobile and handheld gaming sectors are the same thing. They will co-exist, not destroy each other.

At some point, what happens when all the DS and PSP stuff starts to appear on the iPhone, and anyone developing also develops for the iPhone?  That could happen here.  Don't dust off Apple like they aren't going to change the landscape.  They just might here, and then you have a big 3 in handhelds the way you do with the home consoles.

The same attitudes I see in this thread towards Apple, I saw directed at Nintendo before the Wii ended up owning the home console market.  There are developers now creating game apps for the iPhone.  A group of them meet down in NYC regularly and discuss development.  You know what else they are developing for, like the PSP or DS?  How about neither, just the iPhone.

Cynicism over the iPhone is more a response to rather unjustified industry hype than anything else, it's completely different from the Wii's situation. In fact, I'd argue it's very much the opposite. The industry was against the Wii, they're pro-iPhone all the way, it's their new PS so to speak. Totally different from Wii.

As far as smartphones taking over everything, you could be right. But then may I remind you the same was said of computers when Nintendo came out with the NES, as they were riding high with their approach computers were also doing fairly well. And computers did take over the world, did that stop videogames from being quite popular? Nah.

I think we're very much back in the NES era, the PC's "take over" discussion is coming back now in mobile form, and it may very well play out similarly, or not. It's impossible to know what the exact results will be.