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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Return Of The Game (Nintendo Power)
Recently I read an issue of Nintendo Power in which there was an interesting article about how the iPhone could possibly have an affect in the industry for the handheld-gaming market. The main point of the article is how the iPhone's advances may create competition for the Nintendo DS and PSP. A new thing called the "App Store" will be coming out soon for the iPhone/iTouch in which there will be games created by third party deveolpers exclusively for the iPhone. Some reasons why people may prefer the iPhone/iTouch to the DS or PSP are that the iPhone has more than just games, and the games will be more reasonably priced. Personally, I think the people at Apple are getting a little overconfident, saying "I think it's pretty clear that this will be a better user experience than either the Nintendo DS or the PSP. If I were them, I'd be afraid" (Anonymous 44). This seems overconfident to me because even though the iPhone will start getting better-games, the big-name games will still be coming out for the PSP or DS. In conclusion, while the iPhone (most likely) will not dominate either the PSP or DS in sales, it has a chance of taking some profit from the other two main hand-held systems.
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I totally agree with you; although, I do think that Nintendo is going to have to come out for a system other than the Wii if it wants to appeal to serious gamers. The whole i-phone gaming thing could only catch on if more people had i-phones and, with the downturn in the economy, I doubt that everyone is going to be scrambling to get a new i-phone. I'm looking forward to the new Fable II game for xbox 360, have you read anything about it? It sounds amazing.
- Kelly
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