Nintendo CEO: Apple is the 'Enemy of the Future'
Nintendo CEO: Apple is the 'Enemy of the Future'
May 7th 2010
Just a month after Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime
claimed that the iPhone OS (that operating system used on the iPod
touch, iPhone family and the iPad) wasn't a "viable profit platform
for game development," along comes the company's president to say
that, in fact, Apple is the primary "enemy of the future." (talk about
turnarounds!) That's according to Times Online, who says that the Big
N's CEO (Satoru Iwata) feels that the battle with Sony is a "victory
already won," (and pigs fly!) and who clearly believes that the next
wave of gaming won't be of the traditional sit-on-your-coach-and-slam-
buttons variety. 'Course, the PSP never has been able to hang with the
DS family in terms of sales (though the PSP is way way cooler than the
DS) , but even the Wii has a ways to go before it catches the mighty
PlayStation 2 or the PlayStation 3 for that matter in terms of global
sales.
Overall though nintendo is not anywhere close to what the iPhone OS is
capable of, because the nintendo family makes handhelds, not
smartphones! You can't make calls from your DS or Wii, can you? While
the iPhone can challenge the Wii in it's sleep thanks to the multitude
of sensors it encases and the amazing apps that take advantage of them.
Let's face one fact: the nintendo DS has ancient graphics that can't
compare to any of it's competition. It belongs to a world that has
long gone, where we used tape recorders and would have thought iPods
were a species of legume!
A word of advice to Nintendo: RE-THINK YOUR DECISION
May 7th 2010
Just a month after Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime
claimed that the iPhone OS (that operating system used on the iPod
touch, iPhone family and the iPad) wasn't a "viable profit platform
for game development," along comes the company's president to say
that, in fact, Apple is the primary "enemy of the future." (talk about
turnarounds!) That's according to Times Online, who says that the Big
N's CEO (Satoru Iwata) feels that the battle with Sony is a "victory
already won," (and pigs fly!) and who clearly believes that the next
wave of gaming won't be of the traditional sit-on-your-coach-and-slam-
buttons variety. 'Course, the PSP never has been able to hang with the
DS family in terms of sales (though the PSP is way way cooler than the
DS) , but even the Wii has a ways to go before it catches the mighty
PlayStation 2 or the PlayStation 3 for that matter in terms of global
sales.
Overall though nintendo is not anywhere close to what the iPhone OS is
capable of, because the nintendo family makes handhelds, not
smartphones! You can't make calls from your DS or Wii, can you? While
the iPhone can challenge the Wii in it's sleep thanks to the multitude
of sensors it encases and the amazing apps that take advantage of them.
Let's face one fact: the nintendo DS has ancient graphics that can't
compare to any of it's competition. It belongs to a world that has
long gone, where we used tape recorders and would have thought iPods
were a species of legume!
A word of advice to Nintendo: RE-THINK YOUR DECISION
