| easyrider said: guess what it will never out take ds because it's like the ugle sister and the hot one. Being the ds is the hot syster and everyone will go with the hot one and do more to get her. Where the iOS is ugly and people will just settle for the time being. However this won't start some trend that will screw nintendo you are just a apple guy. thats it you love to love apple. |
I don't own an Apple product and hate the iPhone with a passion, for the record.
However, I understand where the market is headed, and I accept that. Its not a matter of what I like or want, but where the market is headed. The market is, like it or not, headed in the direction of mass-market penetration of applications via smartphones.
Furthermore, I never said that Angry Birds outsold every DS game. I just said they had 100 million downloads (which they do, Rovio has said it themsevles), and they likely made between $7 and $10 million USD on the Android version alone. They've probably made about $50 - $65 million USD between all makes and models of Angry Birds, which is about on the level of a DS game selling 2 million copies worldwide. Does that make the iOS market as large as the DS market? No. Does that make it as successful as a game like New Super Mario Brothers on DS? Heck no. But iOS and smartphones in general are posting triple-digit growth annualy, which, given time, will turn future titles into huge blockbusters that will compete with the 3DS.
At that point, it will then become difficult for most every company to ignore the iOS/Android markets, and they will decide to focus more on titles inside those markets. When that happens (and its happening here and there with some games and companies), you will start to see the legs fall out of 3rd party support for the 3DS and so on, which will hurt Nintendo and Sony very badly.
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As for your 'The game would be over if DS would make a phone' comment --- I think your trying to argue about what if Nintendo made a 3DS phone, that it'd be game over. That is exactly my point on the entire discussion. My belief is that Nintendo will indeed do that, and leveraging their IPs on a market like Android, using a Nintendo chipset. Think Nintendo Channel on your DroidX or like what Sony is doing with the Xperia Play. When they do that, they will likely find great success, but again, that is my point - Nintendo will then be out of the cartel business of making 100% of the hardware, making 100% of the carts, and so on. But in the end, it would be better because NSMB on iOS/Android via a Nintendo Channel would sell 100 million copies.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
