How can Nintendo go on the offensive against Apple?

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Rainbird said:

Phoeniks.Wright said:

This whole thing works under the assumption that smartphones and handheld game consoles compete with each other directly. They don't. Smartphones are handheld computers. handheld game consoles are portable videogame consoles. Now, PC's don't compete directly with game consoles.  This was shown with the NES and the Wii more recently. So if we extend that to the handheld space, it's very clear that smartphones and handhelds don't compete with each other, so apple selling that much more phones and tablets has no effect on the DS, 3DS, PSP or Vita. 3DS selling like crap was/will be? entirely Nintendo's own fault.

I don't hope you think that the two markets are equivalent and can be compared directly, because that's as bad an assumption as saying the two do compete directly.

Games like Brain Training were huge successes on the DS, but smartphones and tablets might actually be more well suited for such games than the 3DS. Direct competition or not, there is ample opportunity for smartphones to steal marketshare from dedicated handhelds.

oh god, this. Not only are these games being made available on phones, but they are actually CHEAPER, i can get cooking mama on my phone for 4 bucks, Amazon has it new for 12, with S&H thats 16, four times the amount. You would have to be a lunatic not to get it for your phone. Ninty needs to match the price of the games sold on 3DS, it dont look good to have a game selling that much more on your system.