How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:56AM from the super-steve-bros dept.

Zothecula writes "In an industry obsessed with polygon counts and frame rates, Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld were the proverbial knives at a gunfight. They were grossly underpowered compared to the competition, meaning Nintendo could sell them at a profit from day one. Their innovative control methods ensured they still sold like hotcakes. An animated GIF of Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata holding a DS that printed money became the go to picture to run alongside quarterly announcements of Nintendo's gargantuan profits. If a disheveled man emerged from a time-traveling DeLorean with tales of a near-future Nintendo struggling to sell its latest handheld, I'd have been more surprised about the Nintendo thing. So what on earth happened?"

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Re:General Purpose Device... by beelsebob · 2011-08-11 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny

heh... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/8/1/
Re:Apple isn't doing jack here. by ubergeek65536 · 2011-08-11 06:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Nobody wants to carry an extra device.
That's why I won't carry a phone.
Re:After losing the carts and the cost of each gam by Vyse+of+Arcadia · 2011-08-11 06:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Not to be "that guy," but it's time to be that guy. How do you justify buying your kids replacements for stuff they don't take care of?