Apple to enter games market?

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a.l.e.x59 on 07 December 2007

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leo-j on 07 December 2007

Apple might help disturb microsoft and sony can finnally come back.

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endurance on 07 December 2007

sorry cant find the link,that could of been a lie then

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Nintendownsmii on 07 December 2007

First the price wasn't lowered because iPhone isn't/wasn't selling. It was lowered right alongside the launch of the touch iPod wich retails for $100 less. It was a stratagy to make people (particularly apple fanatics) to go well 100 more and I could get a phone too. As proof just look at the rebate that people who purchased the iPhone within a month of the pricedrop get; if it had to have the price lowered to sell would apple really be giving rebates?

Second, if apple enters the gaming market the only real hope is that Nintendo crushes them early. If apple isn't stopped on a product early in its life the product line lives on into inequity.

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eugene on 07 December 2007

They already tried to get into the living room with Apple Tv and today, Forbes calls it an I flop. http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/1001/046.html

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twesterm on 07 December 2007

RolStoppable said:

twesterm said:

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I don't know exactly what the iPhone does, but it does sound awful familiar to the European launch of the PS3.

Whoa, really? So adjectives related to countries or continents always start with caps? Learned something new.

Btw, shouldn't the part after the comma read: "but this does sound awfully familiar to the European launch of the PS3"?

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dschumm on 07 December 2007

Yes the iPod/Itunes are huge but EVERY other market Apple is in they have single digit marketshare. Computers, OS, phones, media centers, PDAs. They are no threat. Unless they buy every major 3rd party they have no games.

An alliance between Apple and Nintendo is something to watch out for. Imagine a next generation handheld called the iPod DS. shudder.....

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tokilamockingbrd on 07 December 2007

I think that they are kinda liking N's blue ocean marketing, we'll see what they do...

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mike_intellivision on 07 December 2007

I saw this a while back. Most of the analysts dismissed it for a lot of the same reasons here. Basically, it boils down to nobody beats the Big N in handhelds.

Don't flame this as fanboyism. But history is littered with handhelds that have lost to Nintendo, though most were more technologically advanced -- Game Gear, Lynx, Wonderswan, Neo-Geo Pocket, etc.

Basically, the thought is that they might want to make a game-enabled iPhone, which would be a high-end rather than mass market product.

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