| Soundwave said:
The GBA really didn't compete with the iPod to be honest, iPod was just taking off in 2003, when Nintendo was winding the GBA down. And even there, really the iPod wasn't an interactive entertainment device, it was more of a replacement for the Discman as it mostly just played music. Smartphones were a bit of a slow burner at first, and so was the "app idea", the first gaming app that was a blockbuster was Angry Birds and that didn't come out until the end of 2009. Then the iPad arrived in 2010. And Android in that same time frame too. That's really the point where iOS/Android started to rock the game industry and the effects started to become very noticable. |
GBA did rather well until it was cut short by the DS rising. DS didn't really start rising until lite and NSMB in the middle of 06. Either way the point is Nintendo can compete against other forms of entertainment. They just have to focus making something compelling and different enough to create a new value proposition. For them that tends to be new ways of playing games. Chasing the other competitors markets(iPhone/Pad/Adroid/ PS360) is a losing proposition that they suck at. It makes their offers quite literally more of the same experience.
