Nintendo To Take On Apple With DSi App Store 165
Dave Allen writes "Despite Nintendo publicly claiming no direct competition with the iPhone or iPod Touch with its new DSi console, reports have been leaked about the Big N actively encouraging developers to begin work on small form gaming and non-gaming applications for the DSi's download service.
This is the first step toward Nintendo putting together a direct App Store rival, and could be the marketing hook it's been desperately searching for to convince gamers to upgrade their DS." It seems only fair that since the iPhone is now a gaming platform, the DS is becoming a PDA. And, if the only difference between them is a 3G wireless connection, the rivalry can only get more fierce.
Re:The iPhone isn't a gaming platform (Score:4, Funny)
The fun part is that Nintendo actually saw the tamagotchi as a very direct competitor while designing Mario 64.
I'll read the rest of your post in a sec, I forgot to feed my Mario 64... brb
Re:In other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Yet another additional surplus extra "me too" in the market.
I think you mean "mii too!"
It's not Apple that Big N is aiming at.... (Score:2, Funny)
They've seen how easy it is to make money on CSI knock offs. Now we know why Grissom left the CSI series, it's only a matter of time before we're watching Law and Order:The Mushroom Kingdom.
Re:SDK? (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody's going to pay for your crappy tetris knockoffs anyway, derrick.
Re:Really bad summary (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly! Just how when I buy cereal it's competing with parking meters which are competing with movie tickets that are also competing with ikea furniture!
Re:Pulling i out of thin air? (Score:3, Funny)
All right, all right, I'm thinking I'm starting to get this.
Nintendo comes up with the name "Wii" for their new console. They do this to make something unique and not-bandwagon-jumpy so as to make themselves distinct. It is met with no end of bitching and moaning from the get-off-my-lawn gaming elite, who want their D-pads D-paddy, their control sticks sticky, and their console names a reaffirmation of their egos. And when I say "no end of bitching and moaning", I mean it; to this day, every time the name is mentioned in a Slashdot comment, at least two or three oh-so-clevar l33t gamerzzzz start making genitalia references, "lol".
So Nintendo names their upgraded DS the "DSi". And what shows up in a few scant Slashdot posts, right near the top? Someone bitching and moaning that Nintendo has jumped on a bandwagon. Waah, waah, waah.
(Emphasis mine)
Please forgive me.
Re:Pulling i out of thin air? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SDK? (Score:3, Funny)
Quanity does not beat quailty.
And quality trumps all!