Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told the Nikkei that he refuses to believe that the emergence of smartphone gaming and social networking titles are slowly taking away Nintendo’s market share in the hand-held department.
“I haven’t seen data that supports that claim.”
– Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president
And he’s right. It doesn’t matter how many iPhones sell or how many iPhone game apps sell. Figures show DS is still number 1 in sales for the portable games market.
The iphone will never have Pokemon. End of discussion.
if you want high quality classics and core games, consoles and handhelds are the best!!
well, i like the imac and the iphone and apple (i grew up with it) but for gaming i definitely prefer consoles.
iPhone games are complete and utter trash, I wouldn’t even spend £0.59 on some of the cheapest titles. LONG LIVE 3DS!
Smart phones, to add, are mightily expensive in some 3rd-world countries, and their games aren’t available to just everywhere, although cheaper. I’m actually paying close to $800 for a WP7, with its Xbox Live, Ms Office and all, and I’m sure that the 3DS will be much cheaper as a gaming device… with more featured games. (Besides, I’m not really liking the touch screen button trend of nowadays, either, due to ease of touching them.)
Hence, I think, in this case, it all comes down to the price of buying such devices, versus the game prices… and everything else that differentiates “Angry Birds” from “Super Mario”.
There’s a reason that most iPhone games are only $0.99… almost all of them are complete crap. Every once in a while you will find a good game, but it’s nothing compared having to a dedicated gaming handheld.
I got an iPhone hoping that I could use it for portable gaming, but in the end I was rather disappointed. All the games I bought became old an stale within a week or two… there are maybe 3 or 4 that I still play, and even those I don’t play very often.
Their biggest threat is that they are devaluing games. The fact that most iphones games are under $10 makes people think twice about buying a $30, $40 DS game. I think that’s a pretty big deal.
Not big deal, that games are Crap in MOST cases.
Its funny how people “Mac Fans” thinks or say that the “Marvelous” (sarcasm) ipad-iPhone-iPod (all are the same) are going to take over the handheld market in all ways… i really don’t think so. Theres many difference and need on each person. Aside, in the gaming field, They are WAY FAR from the Nintendo Experience.
I preffer a Blackberry over an iPhone. But not for portable gaming, for that is my Nintendo DSi, and soon my Nintendo 3DS!
he’s right, end of discussion.
Apple doesn’t even focus on gaming anyway…
Long Live 3DS! R.I.P. Iwata!