Nintendo: Battle with Sony already won, Apple is the enemy of the future

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Well given the context of the artilce is really posing the question: What is Apple's future in the gaming market? The Nintendo vs Sony battle is really about DS vs PSP. Not about Wii vs PS3 (or 360). I think most people will agree that the DS vs. PSP battle was over quite a while ago. The only place where it's still competetive (but DS is still well out front) is Japan. And really if Nintendo keep focussing on out competing PSP then Apple probably would pull the rug out from under Nintendo and we'd see Apple to to Nintendo in the hand held arena what Sony did to it in the console arena in the PS2 generation.

Seems to me like Nintendo are learing from their mistakes of the past with their hand held strategy.

It would be arrogant and premature to make the same statement in respect of home consoles. Wii has taken out this generation, but Sony and MS are far from being beaten into submission. And Apple isn't on the horizon with home consoles. Iwata would be making a potentially fatal mistake of transferring Nintendo's attention on to an unconfirmed, possible future threat in the home console arena and not keeping focus on the existing and real threats to multi-generation dominance from its 2 current competitors.

Looks like Times online went barking up completely the wrong tree with going off on the Wii tangent.

Or do you see the iPad as an existential threat to home consoles? Seems very far fetched to hold this view IMO.