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megaman79 on 08 October 2009

Iphones are purely for mobile enthusiasts in MOST cases. Its the same market that buys PSP and HD consoles, not Wii and DS.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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.jayderyu on 08 October 2009
mortono said:
Nintendo has admitted that the iPhone has become a competitor. That's a big reason why they released the DSi.

The iPhone/iTouch was not in compitition with DS/DSL. It's the DSi that has moved into competition with the iPhone. It was an oversight of Nintendo that in their research about DLC, facebook, cameras, applications put the machine in line with the iPhone. There is however a substantial price difference and capability of these machines. iPhone is more convienet with an everday need(phone) while DSi is substantially cheaper.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.

Grimes on 08 October 2009

Think of how much Nintendo could make if Pokemon was sold on all portable platforms. It would be obscene.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Ail on 08 October 2009

I think they will be a threat for the DS in the casual market ( the market Nintendo is trying to move to)...
Because the random adult doesn't know about Pokemon or Mario so Nintendo's IP aren't going to necessary attract him ...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

famousringo on 08 October 2009

@ Twesterm

I guess what I don't understand is how it's any harder to scroll down a list than it is to stroll down an aisle, considering retailers don't post user reviews and ratings on their shelves. Nor do I understand why the existence of free software and demos is portrayed as a bad thing when it's completely separate from the paid offerings. You'd think a well-stocked supply of free software would be a good thing.

If your point is that you often need to get information from a web site or a friend's recommendation before you can find a good game, it stands that you often need to do the same to find a good retail game. The difference is that you can simply punch that recommendation into a search field and get it instead of driving to a store, asking a clerk or rummaging through a bin, and hoping the game you're looking for is in stock.

Personally, I just pick the category I'm interested in and scroll down the page looking at user scores and reviews. I don't need a GoNintendo, an IGN or a VGChartz to find good iPhone games like I do with my DS.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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-Newcloud- on 08 October 2009

"Nintendo took away PS2 gamers to their system and kept them happy with games such as Wii Sports and Wii Music"

no... just no.



ph4nt on 08 October 2009

Well considering the DS outsells the ipod and the iphone....



twesterm on 09 October 2009
famousringo said:

@ Twesterm

I guess what I don't understand is how it's any harder to scroll down a list than it is to stroll down an aisle, considering retailers don't post user reviews and ratings on their shelves. Nor do I understand why the existence of free software and demos is portrayed as a bad thing when it's completely separate from the paid offerings. You'd think a well-stocked supply of free software would be a good thing.

If your point is that you often need to get information from a web site or a friend's recommendation before you can find a good game, it stands that you often need to do the same to find a good retail game. The difference is that you can simply punch that recommendation into a search field and get it instead of driving to a store, asking a clerk or rummaging through a bin, and hoping the game you're looking for is in stock.

Personally, I just pick the category I'm interested in and scroll down the page looking at user scores and reviews. I don't need a GoNintendo, an IGN or a VGChartz to find good iPhone games like I do with my DS.

Take any recent iPhone commercial for example.  Those commercials love to boast that there are 75,000 apps but any user is only going to see a couple hundred of those at the most unless they know what they're looking for.

Yes, the app store is split into many different nicely organized catagories, but you still see the same apps over and over again unless you specifically search for something.  For some sort of app that has a purpose like a tip calculator, you can find that by a search, but you can't type in cool game or casual platformer and get a list of those things.  If you don't know what game you're looking for you aren't going to choose from the thousands upon thousands of iPhone games, you're going to choose from a fairly small list with many of those being crap or nothing more than time wasters.