I guess the Walmart lady was not crazy. I bought a 3DS at the already lowered price last night and the lady in electronics was saying how Apple was going to buy out Nintendo. She obvious got the story very warped but at least there was a seed of truth to it.
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Nintendo Faces Investor Pressure to Bring Games to iPhone
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NOPE. Console makers usually sell hardware at a loss to make money on the expensive games.
i have the DSi but i havent used it in ages, the graphics r so bad u can make out every pixel which is shocking considering what they charge for it. Sonic & Crash Bandicoot for example look better on the iPhone than on my DSi and dont get me started on that useless and horrible "browser", every page u try to enter comes up with a message saying "no memory ... free space"
I knew that the 3DS wasn't going to sell much, as soon as the announced the price $250. Same thing with the Game Gear, the PSP, expensive handhelds don't sell a lot. Those investors, (which are probably 1 or 2 people, and made out to a bigger story because it would generate interests) are probably non gamers who never followed the video game industry. It would be really dumb, stupid for Nintendo to start selling their exclusive franchises on other systems. It would also kill the sales of their own systems.
Put an actual Pokemon game on the app store and I will buy a iOS device.
EDIT: To tell the truth when the original DS came out it wasn't that popular, but when the DS Lite came out it was the fastest selling portable ever. Give Nintendo some time.
EDIT: To tell the truth when the original DS came out it wasn't that popular, but when the DS Lite came out it was the fastest selling portable ever. Give Nintendo some time.
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IT would be a mistake to sell games on the iphone just to see a temporary rise in the stock price.
Nintendo is still Nintendo. World class game developer.
They won't develop for iphone unless their handheld business proves untenable. Right now it is way too early to call that. They've haven't released the big guns yet.
And through the years they've gone through ups and downs.
Nintendo is still Nintendo. World class game developer.
They won't develop for iphone unless their handheld business proves untenable. Right now it is way too early to call that. They've haven't released the big guns yet.
And through the years they've gone through ups and downs.
Wow i used to LOVE this game. FMV of hot ladies running about a house and you had to protect them by trapping the baddies Home Alone style! I also had Sewer Shark
Being a Nintendo fan, and knowing their history, they'll die before releasing their software on another platform other than their own.
Now I myself, pretty much stopped playing handheld console games quite a few years ago, but can honestly say that touch-screen games with ya fingers **** me, and a lot of others. People like me prefer to play a game with physical buttons, leaving the whole screen viewable at all times. Now casual games wise, sure, iPhone for the win, but anything else, there's always going to be a market for a DS/PSP type console.
Now I myself, pretty much stopped playing handheld console games quite a few years ago, but can honestly say that touch-screen games with ya fingers **** me, and a lot of others. People like me prefer to play a game with physical buttons, leaving the whole screen viewable at all times. Now casual games wise, sure, iPhone for the win, but anything else, there's always going to be a market for a DS/PSP type console.
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- fanboys can't comprehend thisYou think I want to spend an hour on my phone gaming? Think again
Read the first post in this article as well.
Nintendo should take a lesson from Amazon.
Yes, Kindle is its own proprietary device.
However, they realeased their eco-system to PC, Mac, iOS, etc. "Buy once, read everywhere" i believe is their slogan....
You see its smart,...they werent like "Oh, its not our device, we're not releasing the eco-system"
I love Kindle-even more than iBooks. Buy once, read everywhere is truly great with their whisper sync technology, I can download a book on wifey's Kindle, read some there, then log into my Mac, and read some there, then pick up on my PC at work, then pick up where i left off on my iPhone on the train home....beautiful...just boughth the book once.
Nintendo should take a lesson.
Yes, Kindle is its own proprietary device.
However, they realeased their eco-system to PC, Mac, iOS, etc. "Buy once, read everywhere" i believe is their slogan....
You see its smart,...they werent like "Oh, its not our device, we're not releasing the eco-system"
I love Kindle-even more than iBooks. Buy once, read everywhere is truly great with their whisper sync technology, I can download a book on wifey's Kindle, read some there, then log into my Mac, and read some there, then pick up on my PC at work, then pick up where i left off on my iPhone on the train home....beautiful...just boughth the book once.
Nintendo should take a lesson.
i'm sure a pokemon game on ios will not be $1, they can sell it for $9.99 or something. yeah thats still not near as much as the cartridge version of the game but still there is no cost for making cartridges, packaging them in nice boxes, and delivering them to walmarts etc.
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You think I want to spend an hour on my phone gaming? Think again
Read the first post in this article as well.
Yet people do it all the time.
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I dont agree! I like to play more serious games using analog stick + buttons. For small games such as angry bird sure phones are great.
The main problem with 3DS is lack of games.
I dont agree! I like to play more serious games using analog stick + buttons. For small games such as angry bird sure phones are great.
The main problem with 3DS is lack of games.
This is just silly.
Investors don't have a clue, and the fact Nintendo failed to sell 3DS at a premium price doesn't spell doom.
Also; they charge real money ($40) for 3DS games, of course they don't want a crappier model such as the iOS one where $5 feels like it's too much.
Some people here also quite clearly don't have a clue. Which is sad, also.
Investors don't have a clue, and the fact Nintendo failed to sell 3DS at a premium price doesn't spell doom.
Also; they charge real money ($40) for 3DS games, of course they don't want a crappier model such as the iOS one where $5 feels like it's too much.
Some people here also quite clearly don't have a clue. Which is sad, also.
If the WiiU ends up actually being as wacky as it looks now, I could see Nintendo going the way of Sega. Nintendo's big money post GameCube has been the portable market. They owned it, even Sony couldn't touch it. I had every Game Boy up through the DS. Then I got an iPhone. Emulators are the future. Nintendo is losing tons of money on people who jailbreak and dl roms (me). I'd happily pay for less buggy and easier to install/save versions of old and current Nintendo titles.
Nintendo would save so much money dumping the console and using it's widely beloved game library of portable games to infiltrate the mobile space.
Nintendo would save so much money dumping the console and using it's widely beloved game library of portable games to infiltrate the mobile space.
As you just pointed out Angry Birds has so far made 50 million Euros!! If that doesnt show you the way the markets heading then I don't know what can. While Nintendo can keep trying to milk their cash-cow brands for as long as they possibly can, getting ever smaller returns. Milions more users are turning to the appstore to play innovative and fun titles.
BTW I personally do not want to see Nintendo fail as a company but the 3DS is a definite mis-step and just from my experiance it seems that more and more Japanese kids are excited about the iPad than Nintendo or Sony products. If that is the trend that is happening in their own backyards then I imagine it is even worse elsewhere.
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You think I want to spend an hour on my phone gaming? Think again
Read the first post in this article as well.
We can comprehend what's just around the corner (and what's already happening.) And it doesn't look good for Nintendo.
Nintendo is afraid of risk and change. The real danger is, is that when they *do* finally wake up and take action, it might very well be in the wrong direction (as we're seeing now with the 3DS.)
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You think I want to spend an hour on my phone gaming? Think again
Read the first post in this article as well.
exactly. Games like Dead Space are awesome examples of premium content for mobile gaming. Hell the Emulator devs have already created the interface, buy it, improve it, and release.
You'll spend hours on a DS but not on your phone? Why? It's the same size! Or do you still think of your phone as just a phone? I haven't made a call in 3 days but I've played hours of games. Not so much phone any more.
This is what they should do, release old titles to test the waters. It would be a small investment, but a chance for some big gains. There is nothing stopping them from doing games for the DS and iPhone...
The question is do they want to hand the keys to their future over to Apple. This would be like putting Flash on iOS (if Apple wasn't meeting sales numbers and had to slash prices to remain competitive).
I'd love it if Nintendo embraced iOS and released great controllers and games for iPads and iPhones (I'm certainly not buying a 3DS after buying both a DS and a DS lite). But we have to understand what we're asking here. We're asking for Nintendo to stop making hardware (and they've been the most innovative of the bunch the last generation, the best Microsoft could do was add junk voice control and Sony pretty much did the same thing as Nintendo but without the kid-friendly facade). We're killing the goose just because the last batch of eggs wasn't golden.
At least as far as the Wii is concerned they always made money off it. The thing was essentially an underpowered PowerMac G4.
And you maybe missing the fact that people are becoming less willing to spend $40/50 for a DS/PSP game. EA and others sell a lot of games at $9.99. Which you may not thing is enough, but the cost are lower for an iOS game.
And for people whine about I can't use a touch screen, controllers can be made to work with iOS.
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I would pay $10 for Pokemon Blue/Red/Yellow from the app store, as would most of my friends (iOS and Android users). For a game that is years old and that we already have. Nintendo wouldn't even need to make new games, just port old ones and they'd make an insane profit.
Honestly, I don't really like anything Nintendo has come out with since Super Smash Brothers Melee. Their software isn't great anymore and their hardware is gimmicky. Sounds to me like Sega when they failed.
People love and still play the Nintendo classics. Rereleasing them on a booming hardware platform can only have good results. The games will make a profit and they'll open the door for new games based on those extremely successful franchises. Who doesn't want an MMO Pokemon game on their iPad or other tablet?
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I would pay $10 for Pokemon Blue/Red/Yellow from the app store, as would most of my friends (iOS and Android users). For a game that is years old and that we already have. Nintendo wouldn't even need to make new games, just port old ones and they'd make an insane profit.
Honestly, I don't really like anything Nintendo has come out with since Super Smash Brothers Melee. Their software isn't great anymore and their hardware is gimmicky. Sounds to me like Sega when they failed.
People love and still play the Nintendo classics. Rereleasing them on a booming hardware platform can only have good results. The games will make a profit and they'll open the door for new games based on those extremely successful franchises. Who doesn't want an MMO Pokemon game on their iPad or other tablet?