| ph4nt said: I expect iphone /ipod touch to easily surpass DS sales because they are more mainstream devices. EVERYBODY has a cell phone, pretty much EVERYBODY has some form of music player. So out of all those units sold, how many were sold to play games? 0. how many DS were sold to play games? 132 million. 1.5 billion downloads also includes everything free. When you start to factor in how much of that software is music, videos, gimmicky apps, free games, or $! games, you realize that there isn't much money to be had for a serious game developer. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendogs alone has made more revune than the entire app store. There is more money to be had on a dedicated gaming device. |
exactly, i was looking for a post with my thoughts to save me time. It would be banal(easy AND cheap for them) to Ninty to add cellphone capabilities to the 3ds. Why they arent?because the markets are entirely different.They arent sellign cellphones that play games.That would distract their market of their core objective. And they wouldnt make more money.They want to diferentiate them from a side-gaming system. A system that does gaming with resources not devoted to that, not really prepared to do solid gaming, because consumers KNOW that.
Basically,if you get games for the ipad is the same reason you get mini games on your mid range cellphones.To kill a bit of time here and then when waiting for your order.You arent really buying the iphones mainly for that. if you think we are, you are delusional.
When you buy Resident evil 5 for 3ds(example) you pay 40-50 dollar for a full retail experience.You get the system to get several big games.It has an entirely different revenue system, an entirely different budget and entirely different development times.In that way, its similar to the PSP, with bigger teams budgets ,resources, schedules.
This kind of PR talk is just trying to equate systems that are better recognized with gaming and gain some of their reputation.He knows his system is really not suited for complete gaming, but hed like investors not to notice.
