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Originally Posted by Josh
You know, the "Enemy of the Future" statement sort of sounds epic. Like Nintendo is gearing up to battle the huge final boss that is Apple, hovering over our solar system above the Oort Cloud. Hundreds of thousands of men and women in a secret underground base gearing up to launch the final weapon against such a menace; a giant Gundam/Mario hybrid machine.
Actualy that sounds cooler than what they are probably going to do. Going to put stickers on a Wii and call it a new console.
You know, I don't think Nintendo is wrong in saying Apple is a threat. There was a slide Jobs showed at the OS4 event that showed iPhone OS with something like a factor of 6 times as many games than the DS and PSP. I own all three platforms, and I've spent $580 on iPhone apps (the majority of those being games) in the last year, and $0.00 on the other two platforms. Partly because it's so goddamn easy to buy them right on the device, but also because fuck carrying more than one unit around with me. I run the vast majority of my professional and social life from my iPhone, so why the fuck not all my gaming as well?
This is going to get real interesting once Apple's Game Centre drops.
There are a lot of things that Apple's portables just can't do, but for casual gamers and the average consumer, those things are irrelevant.
I don't think Nintendo is in any danger of losing any ground when it comes to kids and the technologically retarded, but they are going to have to fight Apple for the rest of the casual market, and that's only going to get harder as smartphones become the standard.
Who would spend 580 dollars on frigging *iPhone* games? Other than Morphix
Yeah, that number seems nuts to me too. I really doubt I've hit $100 yet, and I have a lot of games for it.
edit: He said apps though, not games. I did spent ~$60 on a turn-by-turn GPS app. Nothing else has been over $10 though, and I think that GPS app is the only non-game I have paid for.
I downloaded about 20 games on the iPad, and most of them are casual/simplistic games (which explains why most of the are .99 to 2.99, I got them for free tho). Other than Espgaluda, I wouldn't pay $$ on any of these.
You get what you pay for (or less) with this crap, but those $1 and $2 games are going to spoil the market for higher quality games. Maybe the trend toward cheap phone gaming will force all of the substantial games back onto consoles.