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Up against the iPhone and Android, 'Nintendo is Doomed'

Michael Pachter, an equity research analyst of Wedbush Securities and someone who keeps a close eye on the video game industry, had this to say: "Long-term, Nintendo is doomed. [Iwata's] under full frontal assault by Apple."

Shok5558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

Here guys, I went through the trouble of translating it for you all.

"Against 1 MB downloadable casual no-tactile-button touch-screen ultra-simplistic games, Mario is doomed."

Jio5558d ago

Smartphone games are ruining handheld gaming

MajestieBeast5558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

Ye or more along the lines of NINTENDO TEH DOOMEZ AGAINST ANGRY BIRDS!

Mini Mario5558d ago

1.Im pretty sure this game is going to DSi ware. I would much rather play Zelda than this $2 dollar game on an i touch or iphone.

I have the capcom arcade and it sucks playing on the touch screen only. Covers half the screen !

And is no where near as accurate with the "virtual arcade stick"

TBM5558d ago

i have an android phone and i'd still pick my 3 home consoles for the games they have over my phones games.

n4f5557d ago (Edited 5557d ago )

yeah like cell phone have the same development quality of a console or handheld game!

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offdawall5558d ago

nintendo is a handheld for kids , its not up against a SMART PHONE

Jio5557d ago

More like the opposite. I see adults playing handheld games while I see children playing smartphone games on their parents cell phones.

macky3015558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

Fuck that ,.. My phone is still primarily my phone,..
It is not even the same market,.. Handheld gaming dedicated devices will always have their place,..

Raider695558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

N could go Sega way in the future!No new IPs losing support from developers,NGP...,!They will have to reinvent to succeed in the next year or two!

EYEamNUMBER15558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

do you even know why sega abandoned the console business?

THEY WERE NOT MAKING ANY MONEY
THEY WERE LOOSING ALLOT OF MONEY

specialguest5558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

If Angry Birds is the best of mobile phone games, then there's nothing to be concern about. Until the day when you can legally play classic franchises like Zelda, Mario, Metroid, and Pokemon(just to name a few) on your smartphone, gamers who are fans of Nintendo will continue to buy Nintendo's latest handheld. In addition, those same gamers with smartphones will also play their Angry Birds. Both market can co-exist.

metsgaming5558d ago

i cant believe angry birds is considered an amazing game. It looks like a flash game you can find on a free game site.

Mini Mario5558d ago (Edited 5558d ago )

Agreed. Like i said if this is its biggest competetion im sure nintendo and SONY shouldnt be worried.

I know im not, plus who the hell listens to pachter?

schlanz5557d ago

Its actually a great game though, and tbqh it looks a whole lot better than a lot of DS games out there- I should know considering I own close to 200 DS games.

There is a tooooon of content and challenge offered for only $1 (or free, in the case of Android users). Angry Birds however is really quite an exception for mobile gaming. Its rare to find a mobile game that is as fun, challenging, and packed with content as it is.

In short, dedicated handheld gaming systems have absolutely nothing to fear, because there aren't Angry Birds quality games released... hardly ever.

Mini Mario5555d ago (Edited 5555d ago )

^ I have this game. It is OK, seriously nothing special. I actually prefer worms.

Again. Nothing special about this game. Just average. That's why it is only a dollar. It would take 30 or 40 buys to equal one DS game.

I get you like it, that's cool. But give me spirit tracks and pokemon any day.

TheDivine5558d ago

Well the 3ds wii outsell everything, looks amazing. The iphone/ipad platform has come a long way, games are as good or better than psp and ds games. Gameloft has a zelda clone thats beautiful and a jrpg thats KILLER. Thers a huge 30hr epic wrpg thats gorgeous. They have the ps2 prince of persia running on it. There are soo many great games you just have tons of casual crap games also. The iphone 4 display is great and its powerful. Id take an ipad 2 over handhelds if i could only have one. Great games and tons you can do with it. Il still get ngp and 3ds but i got an itouch for gaming. Didnt wana miss chaos rings and to have ff on the go.

firefoxprime5558d ago

Only got 1 question for you.

Where...are the buttons?
None? Shut up then.

Gentlemen, this is where us "gamers" unite! I don't care if your a PSWii60 fanboy! I could care less if you're hardcore or casual. Its us vs. "them". Its our fullfledged games vs. 10min sparks in the pan. I am tired of hearing the Ipad/phone as if its a worthy competitor amongst our gaming consoles/handhelds.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7752d ago (Edited 52d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS50d ago (Edited 50d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer76d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi76d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer76d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot76d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno76d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay76d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno75d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK75d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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