Difficult to see, the future is.

lol they will wait to see if it catches on.

why didn't they wait to see it ps3 would catch on?

I can't and won't deny that Angy Bird has been extremely succesful. I would argue however, that 90% of those millions of downloads were made on the days the game was free, so many people basically thought: "Why not?". Also, while other games on mobile devices have been succesful, to my knowledge none of them ever came close to being downloaded this many times, or enjoyed the same popularity. This makes Angry Birds a rarity. I doubt there are lot of people that buy a tablet just because Angry Birds is on there.

Sure it's fun, for a few hours. I played it, I also thought it was fun. For 2 hours. I don't think a platform that almost exclusively has minigames will be able to replace a platform dedicated to 'real' games. People mostly buy a tablet for all the other functions; the internet, multimedia purposes and the billions of apps that can be purchased for basically everything imaginable. Small 'game-apps' that cost next to nothing are added bonus.

I agree that the game-apps probably helped the tablet's popularity with non- or casual-gamers, but these people probably weren't going to buy a 3DS or Vita anyway. Only when Nintendo or Sony decides to also offer these game-apps (I know they've got some, but it's only a handful) on their systems do they become competitors with tablets.

People who want to play games for the gaming experience, do not decide between an iPad or a 3DS. It's 'And', not 'Or', in this case.

But that's my view. And who am I? ;).

I wish it was that few, there's more than 1 ''Nintendo is doomed'' each year :)

More worshiping at the altar of Apple.

I just don't like the business model of the iOS games ... and mostly don't like their quality.

Mike from Morgantown

I'm not going to read an article that gets things so wrong from the get go.

"The popularity of iPhone and iPad titles such as Angry Birds has ravaged console sales for Nintendo, leading to a loss of nearly half a billion dollars last year, its first in three decades."

Nintendo's console sales were ravaged by Nintendo abandoning the Wii and they lost money because they totally mishandled the 3DS launch and had to sell hardware at a loss.

And it's even more years than that!

Nintendo was doomed in the NES days because videogames were only a fad, and Nintendo was doomed in the SNES days when SEGA did and Nintendidn't. : /

My this article is ill-informed.

Basically Nintendo has been doomed since they started making videogames...

Essentially, Global market share for Android on phones (not tablets) is more than 2:1 for Android (2012 1st Quarter). 

iOs is just slightly larger than all of the non-Android competitors combnined.  But you would never know this from the development side.

http://www.multilingual-search.com/android-vs-ios-global-market-shares-do-not-reflect-traffic/10/07/2012/

That being said, Apple dominates in traffic because of the iPad -- which makes it more profitable. (Lack of availablity on Android does not help either).  

The new Google  pad could really shake things up.

Mike from Morgantown