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Apple Is Nintendo's "Enemy of the Future"
Pickens writes "The San Francisco Chronicle reports that video game industry revenue fell by 26 percent in April, adding more concerns about the health of the industry in the worst year-over-year decline since July 2009. But the big news is that the decline in portable sales makes up 61 percent of the overall monthly decline, suggesting that the Nintendo DS platform is losing steam but also reflecting the growing clout of the iPhone platform as the iPhone and iPod Touch continue to draw in more casual gamers, the iPad offers a bigger screen experience, and Apple announces the 'Game Center' — a social gaming hub with console-like online gaming features. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is understood to have told his senior executives recently to regard the battle with Sony as a victory already won and to treat Apple, and its iPhone and iPad devices, as the 'enemy of the future.' 'If Nintendo's future mobile platforms are to be any kind of success, the company will have to figure out how to take on the ease of use afforded by the App Store,' writes Nicholas Deleon. A large part of Nintendo's faith in reviving its efforts hinge on the 3DS, which may ship in the fall, the first truly major handheld introduction for Nintendo since the original DS in 2004. He adds, 'Maybe Nintendo should just release a phone?'"
Depends on what you're looking for in games. If you want vapid console titles, sure - great! If you want deep and thoughtful simulations or (god forbid) adventure games, you're out of luck.
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Those are all mediocre games at best. Gears of War maybe good.
Halo is the fratboy version of an actual FPS.
I know it's cool to praise any console FPS as being "great" because you're a 17 year old kid with an Xbox, but Modern Warfare 2 was pure rehashed garbage.
Honestly, in gaming the iPhone is not even remotely competitive for anything but the most casual gaming and even there it often gets beaten by DS games (and the controls aren't even the worst problem iPhone games have even though they are a very severe one, you can't even play something as simple as Mega Man properly!). iPhone game development operates on a tiny budget because exposure is limited and prices are unsustainably low for anything that goes beyond a fart button. A scant few breakout hits are used to draw everyone into that market before they realize they have no real chance and all they do is prop up Apple.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Maybe Nintendo should just give the Wii an actual hardware upgrade instead of a motion sensor copout. :|