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patjuan32 on 24 November 2009

^ developers can also take their Iphone titles and port them to the PSP/ PSP Go and/ or the DS/DSI. They could also flesh the games out and produce a cart game for the DS/DSI or disk based game for the PSP. It's not like companies are not going to port to make the most profit that they can, especially if the IP is popular.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 24 November 2009

Sorry nitekrawler, but the PS3 and 360 are in much worse positions than the DS, lol, the DS is profitable and selling around 1-2 million a month WW, the PS3 and 360 are either losing money or barely profitable and are selling far less, Wii has actually disrupted their markets, the HD market is seeing rising costs accelearating faster than market growth, they are dying.

DS is amazingly healthy on the other hand, and its sales have not been affected by the iphone, you need to understand the difference



 

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famousringo on 24 November 2009
patjuan32 said:
^ developers can also take their Iphone titles and port them to the PSP/ PSP Go and/ or the DS/DSI. They could also flesh the games out and produce a cart game for the DS/DSI or disk based game for the PSP. It's not like companies are not going to port to make the most profit that they can, especially if the IP is popular.

This is already happening. Many of the best games on iPhone are DS ports, and now iPhone ports are showing up on DSiWare.

There's a lot of common ground between the two platforms. Nearly all games which can be played with stylus alone could be brought to iPhone and vice versa. If it wasn't a Nintendo game, LoZ: Phantom Hourglass could be played on iPhone. GTA: Chinatown Wars is already on its way over.



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c0rd on 24 November 2009
Lostplanet22 said:
Well every $/€ spent on a Iphone game is a potential lost $/€ for Sony and Nintendo.


It would be nice to know how much already has been spend on Iphone games...

The same can be said about the PSP regarding the DS - that Sony's entrance into handhelds have been a huge potential loss of $/€ for Nintendo.

I don't think they're particularly worried about it, seeing as how the DS is one of the most successful gaming products ever.