How can Nintendo go on the offensive against Apple?

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Phoeniks.Wright said:

Joelcool7 said:

 

The industry is changing and smart phones like it or not are a huge threat to Nintendo's handheld dominance or even their long term survival!

Just finished reading your post, and I must say, what a load of nonsense. It's partially make-belief, and partially history revisionism.

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.

So no, smartphones aren't a huge threat to Nintendo.

Oh, and going back to your original post, it's funny reading about Steve Jobs making a stab at Nintendo, considering he failed twice to succeed in the videogame marketplace, once with the Mac computers, and now with the iphone and ipad.

This is somewhat off-topic, but can you try not to link make believe with revisionist history - revisionism is often just as valid, if not more so than the traditional/orthodox view. Of course, sometimes revisionist history is rubbish, but that doesn't mean it should be used as a pejorative. Cheers.

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