NoHeat.com claims that Nintendo has begun working with Apple on exclusive games to be released for the iPhone at $29.00 a piece and sold through the iTunes Store.
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NoHeat.com claims that Nintendo has begun working with Apple on exclusive games to be released for the iPhone at $29.00 a piece and sold through the iTunes Store.
wow, this would be so cool. i wonder if they could make a traditional 2d side scroller like new super mario bros. work well with the iphone. i would think brain age or big brain academy (or other games of the touch generation) would be well-suited to the iphone multi-touch interface.
NoHeat.com claims that Nintendo has begun working with Apple on exclusive games to be released for the iPhone at $29.00 a piece and sold through the iTunes Store.
wouldn't this detract from sales of nintendo ds? i doubt they would compete with theirselves like this.
Awesome if true. Super Mario would be exciting. No wii though. I am not using my iphone as a wii controller regardless of a strap or not! (wink) 
i'd honestly imagine a lot of iphone owners (skewed older) to be non-ds owners (skewed younger). it could be another outlet for nintendo to spread its touch generation line of games aimed at the "older" market.
I had always thought that they make far more money on software -- and even lose money selling hardware.
Sooooo not happening
Not only because it will detract from DS sales, but developers will have job's head on a stick for playing favorites. Even the price seems off. On the Wii games haven't been more than 10 bucks for non-disk based purchases. The whole thing smells fishy. I think people are just desperate to have nintendo and Apple join forces somehow.
Not only because it will detract from DS sales, but developers will have job's head on a stick for playing favorites. Even the price seems off. On the Wii games haven't been more than 10 bucks for non-disk based purchases. The whole thing smells fishy. I think people are just desperate to have nintendo and Apple join forces somehow.
Nintendo has been one of the few console makers who has almost always made a profit on the hardware as well as the software.
I doubt this could hurt DS sales for 2 reasons. The target market is different mostly due to cost alone. Without any sort of directional pad it limits the types of games that can be played. I'm sure there would be some very unique games with interesting control schemes if this is true, but there are just some things that require some sort of analog stick/directional pad.
Yes. And why would Nintendo use a touchscreen d-pad on the iPhone (which I think would be very poor without tactile feedback) when they have massive amounts of experience using a touchscreen for games already? One of the successes of the DS has been its innovative touch screen use (in games like Brain Age).
This is absolutely not going to happen.
It seems plausible. If it was any company, nintendo has the games that are best suited for portability. Nintendo also is of similar corporate philosophy as Apple. It wont directly hurt DS sales, because the DS is still a unique platform, and although nintendo makes money on their consoles, their primary profit is from games.
If it's not one Nintedo/Apple rumor, it's another...
They're not buds. Get over it.
-Clive
Your thumb would cover up a Koopa Troopa... That's not good.
-Clive
They're not buds. Get over it.
-Clive
Your thumb would cover up a Koopa Troopa... That's not good.
-Clive
Accelerometer control
don't forget multi-touch isn't the only way to control things on the iPhone.
Accelerometer control. There have been tons of games & apps hacked to be controlled with the *Book accelerometer.
I also think before we knew what an iPhone was there was a patent by apple that said acceleromter could be used to flip pages, password protection, etc... etc...
don't forget multi-touch isn't the only way to control things on the iPhone.
Accelerometer control. There have been tons of games & apps hacked to be controlled with the *Book accelerometer.
I also think before we knew what an iPhone was there was a patent by apple that said acceleromter could be used to flip pages, password protection, etc... etc...
Nintendo never sells it's hardware at a loss.
I can imagine Nintendo releasing titles from, or complimentary to, its 'Touch! Generation' range. It might help shift even more DS Lites.
I don't really play video games, but I wonder why nobody has thought of the possibility of a bluetooth control pad, or whatever a nintendo Joystick is called.
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You might be able to do some really innovative games with the built in accelerometer, like a game where a marble is going through a maze that you play by tilting the iPhone.
I've speculated this for a while. A SNES '30 pin' converted controller would be a nice project...
Like Kirby tilt n tumble? er whatever that was....
What makes people think this accelorometer is good enough for gaming?
My first thought was it's not as accurate(at all) compared to the tilt gameboy
My second thought? accell.api isn't in the SDK
It's blatantly untrue. A virtually unheard of blog that makes only a couple of posts a month making such a huge claim?
And a touchscreen D-Pad? That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. You need the physical feedback of a D-pad. Nintendo dealt with this in other ways, making games designed for the touchscreen. If Nintendo WERE creating iPhone games it would be stuff like Elite Beat Agents or Brain Age or Advance Wars that require absolutely NO button interaction and are entirely touch controlled.
I could imagine Nintendo making a few touchscreen iPhone games to hook people on the DS style games. But I wouldn't believe a crumb that fell out of this site's mouth.
Not Nintendo. Sony started this trend, and even then they only lost a small bit of money on the hardware for PS1 and PS2 (the PS3 is the first huge loss-leader for Sony). Microsoft were the first to sell at gigantic losses and to this day they have not sold enough software to make up for the money they've lost and continue to lose money.
Nintendo has never sold their hardware for a loss. The GameCube launched at a very small profit; so did the Wii. The GameCube only sold for a loss for the first quarter after the $99 price drop.
And a touchscreen D-Pad? That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. You need the physical feedback of a D-pad. Nintendo dealt with this in other ways, making games designed for the touchscreen. If Nintendo WERE creating iPhone games it would be stuff like Elite Beat Agents or Brain Age or Advance Wars that require absolutely NO button interaction and are entirely touch controlled.
I could imagine Nintendo making a few touchscreen iPhone games to hook people on the DS style games. But I wouldn't believe a crumb that fell out of this site's mouth.
Not Nintendo. Sony started this trend, and even then they only lost a small bit of money on the hardware for PS1 and PS2 (the PS3 is the first huge loss-leader for Sony). Microsoft were the first to sell at gigantic losses and to this day they have not sold enough software to make up for the money they've lost and continue to lose money.
Nintendo has never sold their hardware for a loss. The GameCube launched at a very small profit; so did the Wii. The GameCube only sold for a loss for the first quarter after the $99 price drop.
never
This is beyond absurd. No way would nintendo ever develop for apple for a number of reasons.
1. Nintendo is a 1st party software developer: eq. they solely support their own hardware, and has never developed for anyone else. (They've leased the Zelda name to CD-i in the mid 90s, but we'd like to forget that)
2. Nintendo has the DS, which has sold in the 50 million unit mark. Apple expects to sell a few million iPhones by the end of the year. No where near the DS
3. Whoever started this rumor is retarded
This is beyond absurd. No way would nintendo ever develop for apple for a number of reasons.
1. Nintendo is a 1st party software developer: eq. they solely support their own hardware, and has never developed for anyone else. (They've leased the Zelda name to CD-i in the mid 90s, but we'd like to forget that)
2. Nintendo has the DS, which has sold in the 50 million unit mark. Apple expects to sell a few million iPhones by the end of the year. No where near the DS
3. Whoever started this rumor is retarded
Depends on the choice of games.. Making having Nintendo porting, or making new "Touch Generations" games for the iphone makes sense, but i dont think we'd see much in the way of retro, mario, or kid-friendly stuff..
It's all about Brain Age etc. There's a big lot of the "mature" audience who aren't likely to buy a DS specifically for those games, but would buy it if on their iPhone, as it looks like a pro device, and nobody can tell you're "playing games"/trying to stop yourself going senile.
Then again Nintendo will already have planned the successor to the DS, and it probably has similar tech to the iphone, so whether this would happen at all I'd imagine is entirely dependant on iPhone's market penetration.. If millions do end up with them, that's some nice extra money for them.
BTW I'm just pondering, i seriously doubt this will happen at all, but it doesn't seem impossible.
It's all about Brain Age etc. There's a big lot of the "mature" audience who aren't likely to buy a DS specifically for those games, but would buy it if on their iPhone, as it looks like a pro device, and nobody can tell you're "playing games"/trying to stop yourself going senile.
Then again Nintendo will already have planned the successor to the DS, and it probably has similar tech to the iphone, so whether this would happen at all I'd imagine is entirely dependant on iPhone's market penetration.. If millions do end up with them, that's some nice extra money for them.
BTW I'm just pondering, i seriously doubt this will happen at all, but it doesn't seem impossible.