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Nintendo cut its profit forecast primarily because of the Japanese Yen's surge this year. President Iwata did NOT emphasize anything on Apple's impact of Nintendo's forecasts at the 3DS conference. Here's Bloomberg's take on Nintendo's announceme…
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How can one explain the fact 2009 was the best year for the DS in terms of U.S. sales (and subsequently breaking every annual video game record ever there), in spite of the presence of the iPhone/iPod touch and no price drop?
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism If that were the case, then the iPhone wouldn?t be sold in those countries, nor would the gray market sales for the iPhone in China been reported to be in the millions. How many other cellphones are selling i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I don?t see the relevance of that statistic. If we take the iPod, Apple has sold 220M. I figure about half have been sold in the US. That makes the number of iPods sold in the US higher than the number of sub…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee I'm willing to bet the cellphone market is bigger than the gaming consul market and if you check windows software prices against Mac software prices you might not use the word inflated as casually. You know, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by randythot Maybe it stands for Lot Larger (Pixels & chunky graphics) Really now.
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This forum severely underestimates just what cultural phenomena gaming actually is, and why the iPhone/iPod touch and Apple cannot unseat that with their current approach. Admittedly gamers themselves find it hard to understand Apple culture as well…
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Nintendo made a $709 Million profit last quarter, which is still huge, and unlike Apple they generally sell low priced products without a dedicated retail sales channel. A lot of this comes down to the unsustainable levels of their success the past …
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Quote: Originally Posted by success You're the one saying I think I know too much not me. You don't have to believe anything I say. If Gollum is your messiah all the power to you. I'm just stating what I see every day in Japan when I pop into th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I won't argue that. As I say, it's sales. how is each platform growing? That' an important question? It's expected that iPhone and Touch sales will have exceeded the DS sometime next year. After that, there co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross What you don't know abut the industry is that it doesn't matter. Companies will move to the platform because of sales. The only reason why a company can get a studio to give them exclusives is because of potent…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross There's Pokemon stuff in the games and music sections of the App Store. I haven't looked to see exactly what it is. But I'm sure that his friend with the DS will be jealous that he can't watch the latest Po…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Most of the games on the platform are iPhone/iTouch only. Are the studios locked into Apple's platform/ no, but many have said that they won't write games for the DS. Is ID locked into the platform? Not by …
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The prospect of Apple buying into a Japanese company like Sega is even more ridiculous than Sonic's ability to sell game systems. Just like when Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo. Oh what fun Nintendo had with that. Sonic, by the way, enjoys a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea $30B in cash enables an amazing amount of copying. Not that I really expect Apple to do so but it certainly would be within Apple's means to buy a few game studios. Sega was only a couple billion a couple years…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross So what? Neither Nintendo's or Sony's devices will be able to play anything for Apple's machines either. More their loss than ours. I'm pretty sure a kid who gets an iPod touch for Christmas will be jeal…
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Nintendo's slowdown doesn't surprise me that much because it's amazingly high sales volume from 2006 - 2008 were not going to be sustainable forever. I think Apple definitely had its influence on Nintendo's moves, and I see the DSi as an answer to a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea How does reading on a computer (which you're doing right now) conflict with reading on a kindle? The only difference is LCD vs eInk. Screen size is about the same for a laptop and eBook. It doesn't. eBooks …
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I think pulling on the cord does cause this to happen to some people. Pulling is just something a lot of people do because it seems to make sense. No one thinks about the issue until it hits them hard. It's not as apparent an issue as dealing with t…
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I bought Kindle 2 after trying out the Kindle app on the iPhone. I'm a graduate student in Japan and needed a textbook. Who had it? Amazon, but so did the Kindle store. It was a no-brainer purchase. No way am I going back to the iPhone app if I …