Combining a phone and a games machine! Everybody’s doin’ it, right? Not Nintendo.
https://kotaku.com/meet-the-playstation-phone-5674144
“Certainly we are adding more and more elements to fill out the experience and take away more and more time from competing devices,” Nintendo of America boss Fils-Aime told Forbes. “But our handhelds will always lead with games.”
“3DS content will be dramatically unique to our platform, because I don’t think a smartphone manufacturer will invest to put a 3-D parallax screen in their device and not have the content to bring it to life.”
I don’t know about that. How many years will it be before there’s an iPhone with a screen like the 3DS’? One? Two at the most? And the iPhone 4 is powerful enough as it is, let alone how powerful the next models will be.
I’m not saying this as a prophet of doom, just…that’s some fairly short-term thinking there by the Nintendo of America president when you consider the 3DS won’t be updated anywhere near as regularly as a smartphone competitor.
