Shareholders, however, would not have been happy. Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi would have lost around $300 million in a single day, as the value of the shares dropped 21 per cent. Yamauchi is the company’s largest shareholder, and owns 10 per cent of Nintendo.
It’s our general opinion that the market has considerably changed, and Nintendo (and ultimately Sony) are struggling to push top tier games for £35 when Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch offer similar entertainment prospects with games costing less than a pound and the likes of Facebook offer social gaming for a very low entry fee.
The next twelve months will be very interesting indeed.
Burgess_101
i dont like mobile games at all just doesnt seem like a worth time investment on my bus ride to school i rather listen to my music only one mobile game has had my attention for a prolonged period of time and thats game dev story which i played non-stop
Awayze
Maybe if the 3DS wasn’t a P.O.S upgrade from the DS, it would sell more. It’s 2011, the 3DS has a crappy res screen, no capacitive multitouch screen, lame CPU/GPU.
So why would anyone get a 3DS over an iPod Touch or the old DS. PSV is where its at and people want graphics nowadays and the 3DS doesn’t deliver.
Starman
If people just wanted graphics then how are angry birds & doodle jump million selling games? Hardly amazing graphics there!
Awayze
Yeh but Angry Birds looks better so it has better graphics because of the Retina Display on the iPhone 4
colmshan1990
@Starman- but how many copies of Doodle Jump or Angry Birds would have been sold at the price of a 3DS game?
You’re just not comparing like with like there.
And Awayze, I have to disagree with you on one point. While there’s been nothing to draw me to a 3DS yet (read: Pokemon) I have been quietly impressed with the tech. Whilst not up to the standards of the Vita’s Uncharted or WipeOut, it is still impressive. Look at the graphics of Resident Evil, Street Fighter or Dead or Alive again before you spout off about a lame GPU. The 3DS is clearly a powerful piece of technology.
Yes, the Vita may be more powerful, but I don’t think it’ll be by as big a gap as there was between the PSP and the DS, and that didn’t hamper the DS sales either…
Starman
I wasn’t comparing them, more trying to point out that if people did just want graphics now that those games wouldn’t have sold because people would be using proper handhelds for gaming. I do actually like the 3ds but haven’t seen enough top games to warrant buying one yet.