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Soundwave on 27 May 2016
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spemanig said:
chakkra said:

Nintendo is looking a lot more like Blackberry in this scenario.  I'm not saying that they will indeed go out of business, but things are looking bright for them right now.

No they aren't. Blackberry was on top before the iPhone. Wii U isn't on top, PS4 is. They are Apple before the iPhone right now. (and before the itouch and such)

NX is their iPhone.

Software OS will never be a big factor in home consoles IMO because it can be copied. 

Even your analogies are all over the place. The iPhone was a massive hardware revolution, the Blackberry didn't have a full touch panel with multitouch, nor did it have the brand momentum of the iPod (the previous most influential electronics gizmo of 2000-2005) behind it. The iPhone at the time of its release was pretty much unlike any phone on the market, it was also probably the highest end phone hardware on the market (huge ass screen compartively for one). 

And actually the iPhone was copied. Android basically copied that and now has far higher market share. 

The reason Apple is still successful with a minority marketshare is because as a luxury brand they can charge huge profit margins on their product. 

Nintendo is nothing like any of this. The iPhone is not successful just because of an OS and it's laughable to think Nintendo will make an OS as revolutionary for a TV console with no dedicated OS department.