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Nintendo: Apple Or Google Could Eat Nintendo Says Analyst

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David Edery, founder of Fuzbi, a consulting firm focused on video game development has told Gamasutra that Nintendo needs to keep an eye out for both Google Android and Apple iOS.

David Edery was speaking to online gaming publication Gamasutra about how free-to-play games and online microtransactions are now affecting the video game market.

“In the very near future, it’s very possible that Nintendo could wake up and find that Apple has eaten their lunch — or Google through Android has done it,”

“If the console makers don’t start the transition process immediately, well, history is littered with companies that waited too long to embrace a revolution that was threatening their core business,”

- David Edery, Fuzbi

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Nintendo: Apple Recruit Nintendo And Activision Staff To Create Gaming iOS

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Apple have employed two key players at Nintendo and Activison to help promote Apple iOS as the definitive gaming platform.

Robert Saunders, formerly head of Nintendo UK’s communications who helped promote both the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS has taken one of the positions, whilst Nick Grange from popular games developer Activision has also helped fill in one of the rolls. Do you think these individuals will help position Apple iOS as the definite gaming platform?

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Nintendo Wii: Apple Fans Prefer Nintendo Wii Over PS3 and Xbox 360?

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A recent survey conducted with 3,035 iPhone/iPod/iPad users by the Npoll iOS app shows that the majority of those surveyed prefer the Nintendo Wii over Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3.

Nintendo Wii is the most popular console with 51% of users telling NPolls they own this game console, followed by Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Nintendo DS.

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Nintendo DS: Nintendo Claims Apple Isn’t A Threat To The DS

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Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime is confident that the Nintendo DS will continue to sell exceptionally well throughout 2010 despite heavy opposition in the form of Apples iPhone and iPad devices.

“We have not seen any impact on our DS business. In the first three months [of this year] we’ve set two new sales records for the Nintendo DS. We think that through April that we’ll have the best four month time period to kick off a new calendar year that we’ve ever had with the device. So certainly we’re seeing momentum, [Apple is] seeing momentum. I think two products can succeed at the same time.”

- Reggie Fils-Aime

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Nintendo: Legendary IGN Nintendo Journalist Leaves For Apple

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Matt Casamassina the legendary Nintendo journalist for IGN has accepted the position of ‘app store games manager’ with Apple.

Casamassina specialised in Nintendo game reviews and news related segments for IGN and has subsequently been a central figure at the online gaming publication and a major force within the Nintendo community for many years.

“Anybody who has read my work through the years will know that I’ve long been a huge Nintendo fan, but if there is one company that could entice me away from covering Mario and Zelda it’s the one owned by Steve Jobs.”

- Matt Casamassina

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Nintendo DSi: Nintendo Retaliates To Apple’s Comments

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After Apple declared the iPhone and iPod Touch as “superior” gaming platforms to the Nintendo’s DSi and Sony’s PSP, Nintendo have unsurprisingly seen fit to fire back.

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America CEO, has responded to Apples criticisms claiming  “The DS, with its dual screens, offers an experience that cannot be replicated on a smartphone.”

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Nintendo: Nintendo Denies Any Rivalry With Apple Devices

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With Apples iPhone  increasingly becoming a solid entertainment device you’d be right in thinking Nintendo views the platform as a competitor, well according to Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata this simply isn’t true.

Nintendo doesn’t have any intention of directly competing with existing products, but the mass media has a tendency to portray everything as a rivalry between opposing companies. It seems some people have the impression that we want to compete with cell phones or the iPod, that putting cameras or music players in our devices is out of character for us. I hope those who have such an impression will take an interest in what Nintendo can make when it dedicates itself to pleasing as many people as possible who pick up a DS, and I hope they’ll actually pick one up themselves.

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