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Nintendo Says Profits Slid 66% in Last Quarter - (Partially) Blames iPhone

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Title is still misleading even after the edit. iPhone is but a minor detail editorialized into it for upvotes.

Totally left out from the article is the fact that Wii users just don't buy games like Xbox or PS3 ones.

It may be minor in its overall contribution to Nintendo's slide, but it also jumps out as the most salient and noteworthy detail.

For Nintendo to explicitly mention Apple's iPhone in an earnings call, acknowledging its impact on their business, is what makes the report interesting, different and relevant.

I'm definitely open to changing the title based on an actual suggestion, but find your reasoning for my motivation ridiculous (obviously not my article).

It didn't say they're blaming their revenue slide on the iPhone at all. Not even partially, as your edited title suggests. They merely mentioned them as part of the competitive landscape.

It's certainly interesting that a phone might be getting noticed in the gaming industry, but that really has nothing to do with the article at hand, and especially not the title.

Indeed. People look at console sales numbers, and think nintendo is doing great.

But if you look at titles, you can't get the best games on wii. And those doing really well like RockBand are available on other platforms (with better graphics)

All of the Wii games I am looking forward to come out at Christmas. Until then I am half way through the SNES Zelda (never played it before) which is plenty of fun. If there are no games I want, you don't get my money :)

Edit: For clarification it is an actual SNES cart (birthday present) for my SNES (also for my birthday, awesome wife), not a wii emulator game.

Hint: Nintendo should open up their platform to easily develop applications so that people can download them via the dsi. Right now you need to be a big development house to build an application. The bar is lower for an iphone and the plethora of apps available is mind-boggling (not that 99% are worth anything, but their is an app for everything).

I'm not sure that app store model would work as well for the DS. I think I'd go somewhere in the middle. Probably require a minimum of $5 sale price for every game (with free trials for sure) or something like that.

It's an interesting thought though. What if they opened up more? And why hasn't Microsoft done this? They are a little more open with Xbox Live.

Well they sold 50m+ Wiis and 100m+ DS's, how many more do they expect they are going to ship? Also the Wii is kind of lacking good games at the moment and Nintendos announcements at the E3 for this years titles wasn't that exciting either.

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