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Nintendo iPhone Games?
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The touchscreen d-pad would be interesting. I don't see an external gamepad happening... let's be honest... iPhone users are predominantly not going to be 12 year olds. late 20-somethings and 30-somethings who want to reminisce about the Nintendo days are not going to carry an external gamepad.
Of course, bets on the first person who brings in their iPhone with a broken screen because they got too excited trying to save the princess!
Of course, bets on the first person who brings in their iPhone with a broken screen because they got too excited trying to save the princess!
SEGA went platform agnostic because they lost money on the SEGA CD, 32x, Saturn, and Dreamcast. They couldn't pull a profit making hardware and developing titles so they just went into software development. Nintendo is different, Nintendo has been making a profit quite steadily. Last generation Nintendo made third but made a ton of money, much more than the xbox and I heard some people say more than the Playstation, though that admitably seems far fetched.
Nintendo's strategy works. You might as well say Apple will stop making the Mac line and release software for windows. Nintendo has no need to become platform agnostic, so they won't.
After the slam dunk success of the Wii, why would they be dumb enough to NOT capitalize with a new system?
If you think this you're an idiot. Nintendo currently has the 2 best selling games hardware devices, with the Wii and DS. Why on Earth after the huge success they're having this generation, would you think they'd suddenly decide to do a Sega?
Not only that but Nintendo have publicly stated that they are already developing the follow up to the Wii.
I hope you were joking.
This is a riot. I'm sure very few people actually believe it, but for those who do - I say...
HA!
Ok - got that out of my system...
HA!
Ok - got that out of my system...
Dead wrong, my friend. With the DS and Wii, Nintendo has captured the mature market. And I'm talking people from 50 and up. People with lots of cash to burn. They may get an iPhone, but they will probably have a DS already!
Because Nintendo is currently flowing over with money from their highly successful Nintendo DS, a console which sells five to ten times better than its closest competitor.
No it wouldn't, because the iPhone is not a gaming device.
Why would Nintendo leave the R&D to someone else when they're already doing it themselves? Remember the Wii? You know, the best selling home console these days? Yes, that one. Nintendo did the R&D for the Wii themselves.
You mean like the one they built in to the Wii remote?
That's a lot of crap.
Wii is the best selling home console around. They are turning a massive profit off of both their home console and their portable. Why on earth would they drop a massively profitable business model like that?
That is the definition of twisted. Mario looks pretty good, but I'd be happy with the classic tetris. I suspect the current itunes games will work on the iphone. I wonder if the controls will be touchscreen.
maybe put it in portrait mode and the bottom third of the screen can be the controller.
I don't believe an ounce of it.
But out of curiosity, let us pretend for a while and I ponder - what chances do Nintendo DS games have on iPhone as far as
1) Processor requirement
2) Screen size/ resolution (I imagine a vertical split to emulate the DS?)
3) Touch vs Stylus
I would so love to have BrainAge on my iPhone!
But out of curiosity, let us pretend for a while and I ponder - what chances do Nintendo DS games have on iPhone as far as
1) Processor requirement
2) Screen size/ resolution (I imagine a vertical split to emulate the DS?)
3) Touch vs Stylus
I would so love to have BrainAge on my iPhone!
BrainAge is the best! It doesn't have to be straight emulation. Nintendo could easily make games for the iPhone, although there will be no power left to make phone calls
I'd be surprised if it didn't have the processing power to do Brain Age, perhaps with some accommodations for the fact that there's only one screen, and there's no stylus.
Whatever happens, you can expect lots of games. If they have games for the ipod--if you can call those games--then you can expect lots of touchscreen fun!
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.
29 BUCKS? better be some good friggin games.
This would be a definite "try before you buy" situation, as I love the feel of a real live d-pad underneath my thumb. If Nintendo is really doing this, I hope they will release at least a demo of whatever game they are planning on releasing to convert those of us who might miss the feel of a real d-pad and other buttons.
You seem strangely surprised. Why? DS games are currently $30-$35, and PSP games are $40-$50.
If FULL games that take 4-8 hours to complete minimum were being released, $30 is definitely reasonable.
Still, I think it's unlikely Nintendo is doing anything. Why would they? Anything they release on the Nintendo DS with the installed userbase of >45 million is likely to sell much better.
DS to play nintendo games on an apple product
On average that means I teenager working at min. wage would have to work an hour for every hour he wanted to play. Thats gay! I would rather just sit aroud for the 16 hours. tleast if they had some good games these days like the innovative **** in NES SNES times I would pay what hey ask. But hte bunch of repackaged garbge they give out today....