There is no evidence that they are losing any markets, really. The DS has remained fairly consistent, perhaps a more telling sign will be how Nintendogs n Cats sells.

"hardcore gamers, like me for instance, who grew up on Halo"

Its all over, gaming's finished. Another five or ten years and there won't be anything worth playing anymore except for some underground stuff. Its just like movies and music. This is why I warned you bros about games becoming mainstream, I warned you.

1) Android is NOT a phone. It is a freakin' smartphone OS.

2) iPhone is a phone. Why compare software with hardware.

3) Android is the no.1 smartphone OS because almost all cellphone manufactuers use it and there are dozens of them, hell I just got one for free and love it.. iPhone don't do free unless it is a fat ass contract.

4) Apple iphone HARDWARE still sells better than any ONE model of an Android phone.

The iPhone is "valid gaming platform" because of it's software compatibility through all it's models. Most apps will run on all later models.

Google admitted that Android will never quite accomplish that because of so many different models, hardware specs and button configuration (or touchscreen) layouts.

Yes the guy is an idiot. He forgot to highlight the most important thing. It's all about the  gaming experience and the 3DS was built for that, not to talk to anyone or hold to your ear....although I suppose you can.

That was an awful article. If I play a heavy resource game on my ipod touch on high brightness and volume, the battery is laughable.

Of course it is not a match for iPhone. It is not a phone. :P

Media is so Apple-centric nowadays, it's not even funny :(

Why did you have to go and bring the NGP into our nice hate fest!?

Well, apparently HARDCORE today means "I play FPS above ALL!" so it would make sense that anything remotely strategy wouldn't be up his alley.

I agree the 3DS is worthless as a phone.

Just wanted to hit him with a logic bomb.

Just find it funny that for a tech guy and "hardcore" gamer he looks down upon solid state media without realizing he's dissing the upcoming NGP as well as  SDD's and flash memory cards.