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Apple Beat Nintendo to a Unified Gaming Network…For Shame
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8 Apr |
Alright, I know this isn’t an Apple blog, but today’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement brought us word that Apple is working on a unified social gaming network. That’s right, Apple beat Nintendo to it, leaving Nintendo the only major competitor in the market that doesn’t have one.
PS3 & PSP: Playstation Network
X-Box 360: X-Box Live
iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch: Game Center
PC: Steam
Wii & DS/3DS: ???
For being an a major innovator in the video game industry, Nintendo sure is taking their sweet time on this. If they don’t announce something at E3, I’ll be very, very put out. Its a matter of necessity at this point. A little hint, Nintendo: CLUB NINTENDO!
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Tags: 3D, 3DS, Apple, DS, game, iPhone, iPod, network, nintendo, playstation, PS3, PSP, Video, Wii
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Apple, Steve Jobs gunning for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft with iPhone 4.0 update
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8 Apr |
Nintendo may not (publicly) care much about people playing games on Apple products, but don’t tell that to Apple. At their iPhone OS 4.0 preview event today the company came out gunning for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.
Shot one was a social networking platform called Game Center that’s built into the phone’s OS. Basically, people in gaming will call this feature Xbox Live Lite, because that’s what it is: A semi-featured, multitasking matchmaking and leaderboard service that’s tied directly into the device’s operating system and connects to whatever games you have that might support its feature set. Also, Achievements!
Shot two was a “mine’s bigger” quote from Steve Jobs about the number of games on the iPhone/iPad platform. Here’s a summary: There are many, many more games on Apple “portables” today than there are on Nintendo or Sony. Quantity has nothing to do with quality, of course, but nevertheless you had [...]
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Tags: Apple, game, games, iPhone, microsoft, network, nintendo, preview, review, rom, XBOX|
Just Cause 2 grapples to top of UK sales chart
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29 Mar |
In true revolutionary fashion, Just Cause 2 took the top spot on the UK all-formats sales chart last week. The sandbox title that’s more fun when you ignore your objectives beat out Pokémon SoulSilver and HeartGold, which fought to the second and fourth spots, respectively.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 kept on the pressure in third, while the unstoppable Just Dance took fifth. Kratos fell down the charts, like he tumbled out of the good graces of Mt. Olympus, as God of War III went from first to seventh. Check out the complete UK top 10 sales list after the break.
Source – Just Cause 2 Swoops in Ahead of Pokémon [GFK Chart-Track]
Source – Latest UK Software Charts [GFK Chart-Track]
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Just Cause 2 grapples to top of UK sales chart originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:27:00 EST. [...]
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Let’s get real: Nintendo will never, ever put games on the iPhone/iPad
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29 Mar |
I appreciate Business Insider’s spunk, and would actually welcome Nintendo games on my iPhone and soon-to-be purchased iPad, but let’s be honest and completely un-fun for a second:
With the exception of that Philips CD-i Zelda disaster that we’ll never speak of again, Nintendo will never, ever put their games on another company’s hardware.
But like I said above, it would be pretty awesome, right? Who in their right mind wouldn’t buy a “Virtual Console app” from the App Store? It’d sit there on your iPhone screen, waiting to be pressed, and when it was, it would open up and show you all the 8-bit titles you’ve purchased from Nintendo, through Apple, thus far. And there’s the first rub, the
Profit
problem. Nintendo is notorious about making oodles of cash from all of their products and software, from day one. Case in point: Every single fricking thing they’ve ever done, with the exception of [...]
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Nintendo DSi Shop looking for non-game apps? |
28 Mar |
Nintendo have apparently been pushing developers to create small-scaleapplications that could be distributed through the DSi Shop, once it launches in Europe and the US. According to one unnamed developer, the suggestion came at the Nintendo Developer Conference in London this week.
“Nintendo is keen to have developers offering all kinds of software once the DSi store fully launches for access in Europe and America … Given the advanced functions in the DSi, such as the microphone and camera, the company told us that there are a variety of opportunities for a variety of apps, both in a games sense and a non-games sense, that we could offer” unnamed developer
Nintendo have previously denied that they consider the DSi Shop any sort of rival to other platform-specific download systems such as Apple’s iPhone App Store or the Android Market. However this week they promoted not only game-style downloads and add-ons, but standalone [...]
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With nonchalant 3DS reveal, Nintendo gets strange |
26 Mar |
Alright. The utterly strange Nintendo 3DS reveal has cooled a bit these past few days, but in that sentence lies the rub: Strange.
It’s completely, mind-bogglingly strange that Nintendo, known for Apple-like secrecy—especially concerning hardware—would just casually drop what is arguably the biggest advancement in their portable line since the boxy gray DS was revealed six years ago. In their latest newsletter, industry rag GamesIndustry.biz pics up on this:
Bombshell dropped, Nintendo proceeded to airily imply that we can find out more at E3 if we’re bothered, and wandered off nonchalantly, leaving the Internet and the mainstream press alike to implode under the weight of speculation, claim and counter-claim.
And the announcement was indeed a bombshell. Three-dimensional gaming is in its infancy, and yet here it is, the apparent cornerstone of Nintendo’s next disruptive strategy (hell, some, like myself, are critical that it will ever truly take off in the near term, as [...]
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Analyst: iPhone has Apple taking a bite out of DS, PSP software sales |
23 Mar |
This whole iPhone as a gaming platform thing might just be catching on. According to a report by mobile analytics firm Flurry, revenue from games sold for Apple’s touch-based devices grew from $115 million in 2008 to an estimated $500 million last year in the US. Impressive indeed — but even more so is Flurry’s research showing that iPhone / iPod touch games now account for at least 19 percent of total US handheld software revenue, up from 5 percent in 2009.
Flurry’s findings show that most of that share has been taken away from Sony’s PSP, which accounted for 11 percent of 2009’s handheld software revenue, down from 20 percent the year before. Money taken in from Nintendo DS game sales, on the other hand(held), only decreased five percent since 2008, with Flurry pegging it at 70 percent of the market in ‘09.
The firm sees Apple continuing to put the [...]
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Analyst: 3DS will help Nintendo stave off iPhone |
23 Mar |
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has said in a new report that the Nintendo 3DS system will not only increase unit sales for the DS platform (obviously), it will satisfy demands of consumers now excited about 3D technology, and help differentiate Nintendo’s offerings from iPhone software. He notes that cheap iPhone games are cutting into the DS business. “However,” he suggests, “with a differentiated 3D display, high quality games, and profitable business model for publishers, we believe the 3DS could help reduce the competitive threat from smartphones.”
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, however, doesn’t believe 3D on its own is enough — because if that’s all it is, Apple will simply copy it. “It seems that if 3D on portable devices was easy,” he told CVG, “Apple would have beat them to it. If they truly pioneer a technology, my guess is that Apple will mimic the technology.” That’s [...]
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