Wii U App Store: How Nintendo will take Apple on at their own game

[oniyide]

happydolphin said:

oniyide said:

If we are talking strictly casual audience, then yeah. Thats probably why they pushed the 3DS as a core machine, getting ready for that audience to go on to smartphones?? Possibly.  I dont thin they need to mitigate to be honest and I dont think they can. Unless they are willing to really switch up their strategy.  If they really wanted to combat the Iphone and such, they would need a phone. They want to combat tablets, they need tables. Lets keep it real, no one is going to look at Wii U and think that is a tablet of quality, not people who know better anyway.

Truth is, whether some her like it or not, Nintendo is mitigating. From Rol's kind link:

"Accordingly, as long as the Nintendo 3DS can offer gaming experiences that can not be realized on smartphones, and if they are attractive enough, we can ask our consumers to purchase the Nintendo 3DS. The important thing for us is to make these proposals by taking advantage of our position of being able to make unique offers based upon the integration of both hardware and software as we are making both."

Im sorry, but i dont see the mitigation. I dont think adding an eshop to thier Wii U and 3DS is mitigating, its just common sense and a natural step forward in video game tech. SONY and MS did that years ago but nobody said they were mitigating then.  If the smartphone games were not as popular as they were dont you think that NInty would still make an eShop type deal for their future hardware?? I think yes, they would have too to combat PSN/LIVE. Hell they already had something like it in place with WiiWare.

IMHO i think that Ninty knows it might not be able to get away with charging 3--40 dollars for games like cooking mama and Brain Training, when the smartphones and even Sony and MS's own online stores carry games like it for cheaper. People will wise up and the only thing Ninty can and should do is just follow MS' lead when it comes to online.