How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game 425
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from the super-steve-bros dept.
from the super-steve-bros dept.
Zothecula writes "In an industry obsessed with polygon counts and frame rates, Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld were the proverbial knives at a gunfight. They were grossly underpowered compared to the competition, meaning Nintendo could sell them at a profit from day one. Their innovative control methods ensured they still sold like hotcakes. An animated GIF of Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata holding a DS that printed money became the go to picture to run alongside quarterly announcements of Nintendo's gargantuan profits. If a disheveled man emerged from a time-traveling DeLorean with tales of a near-future Nintendo struggling to sell its latest handheld, I'd have been more surprised about the Nintendo thing. So what on earth happened?"
Re:General Purpose Device... (Score:5, Funny)
heh... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/8/1/ [penny-arcade.com]
Re:Apple isn't doing jack here. (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody wants to carry an extra device.
That's why I won't carry a phone.
Re:After losing the carts and the cost of each gam (Score:5, Funny)