Nintendo waves the white flag at E3 2010

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Killiana1a said:

Yes you can conduct a conversation with me. If Nintendo is serious on this Blue Ocean business strategy, then they would realize they could retain, capture new, and steal PSP consumers by offering cell phone services with a hand held. If you want to consistently get new consumers, then you should market a product that the hardcore gamer's mother and little sister would want to buy. You do this through a hand held which allows them to use it as their primary cell phone along with the ability to play Tetris, FarmVille, or some other wildly popular game secondarily.

We all know Nintendo is about gaming first and is slowly eating away at both Microsoft and Sony with core franchises such as Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. What Nintendo has to worry about in the near future is Apple making a big push into the hand held market.

Apple has been in the position Nintendo was in during the mid 2000s where you are the underdog against big competitors, with the only way to gain a foothold is to switch the game up and market products the established top dogs and their industry lackeys view as gimmicks or great ideas not backed up by a history of excellence.

Apple's history of being  a counter-culture icon and red headed step child of the industry affords Apple a unique perspective on gaining a foothold in new markets and chipping away at the markets of the established top dogs. This alone should make Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo take Apple seriously.

That actually is a reasonable thing you stated, but it really depends on how drastically different the consumer market is in the States, in the past gaming has been pushed on the cell phone market with a general "we don't care" from consumers, which is why games on cell phones have generally been really low budget and very simplistic in nature.  

In Japan however mobile phone gaming actually has a serious business going, but that still hasn't stopped Nintendo from pushing the DS to places the PS2 didn't even reach.

As of right now Apple has yet to have a killer app or make a phone conductive for more serious gaming development, right now it's a lot of ports, still low budget titles, or indie games.  Part of it has to to with the lack of freedom, only having a touchpad to work with and a gyro isn't very open to making your traditional titles, the ones that get around this use the touchpad for your buttons.

What I hope if they really want to push it is to make a phone that slides up to reveal a few buttons a D pad and maybe an analog control of some sort, that would allow for more familiar ground developers. 

But that goes back to my point before, Apple while trying to push some games has made a product that is good for a phone but not that great for a gaming platform, if Nintendo started venturing into the cell phone market it means they'll likely design a half-assed cell phone and people will see it as something like a N-Gage.