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Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones
Several readers sent word that Nintendo is finally bringing its games to mobile devices. It's partnering with Japanese game publisher DeNA to develop games for phones and tablets based on Nintendo's popular game IPs. (Existing games will not get mobile ports, however.)
DeNA first approached Nintendo about using the company's characters in mobile games back in 2010, Iwata said, and has been passionately pursuing talks on the alliance ever since. Iwata acknowledged that the transition from the Wii and DS lines to the Wii U and 3DS lines has not gone "as smoothly as we had expected," but he maintained that industry watchers predicting the death of dedicated video game consoles are being too pessimistic. Iwata tied the move to smartphones to Nintendo's historical embrace of TV gaming after decades as a physical toy and card game company during a time when TVs didn't exist. "Now that smart devices have grown to become the window for so many people to personally connect with society, it would be a waste not to use these devices."
It's worse than that. It was $599 in 1995, which would be over $925 today.
AppleTV will eventually become an iOS console. Get used to it, but custom gaming consoles may become a thing of the past once the hardware has become commoditized. You can only push 2D/3D graphics so far on a TV before hands are thrown up and "fuck it, good enough". In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this turns less into a Microsoft vs Sony as it would be Microsoft vs Apple, vs Steam in the battle for platforms and not hardware specs.
Life is not for the lazy.