Nintendo Rumors, Apple Options

[EddieV]

I have recently found out that if the Nintendo Revolution fails, Apple is planning to buy Nintendo and create their own console, with Apple Graphics Technology.

[sadolakced acid]

Oh, sure, maybe the iPod is marketed to a large segment, although that's debateable.

Still, I don't see your reasoning on why one company is bad because it targets a wide swath of consumers, and another is good because it targets a slightly smaller swath--although I would argue that Nintendo's target group--the average gamer and the family--is hardly a small segment of the consumer population. But even assuming it is, I don't see why one tactic is good and one tactic is bad. In the end, both companies in this example are vying for one thing: making money. That consists of pleasing the consumer to an extent, or at least giving them the illusioned of being pleased. I don't see one as benevolent and one as malevolent. I see them both as trying to make a few bucks.

1- apple has monopolized the NAND flash memory market. very big corporation screwing over the consumer, if apple raised the price of it's players.

2- apple's customer service is focused on saving money, not fixing problems.

3. appple's proprietary nature. i don't like sony either.

(there is, of course, no problems of compatablility with consoles, which is much like apple's approach to PCs.)

[*mipadi*]

1-  apple has monopolized the NAND flash memory market.  very big corporation screwing over the consumer, if apple raised the price of it's players. 

2- apple's customer service is focused on saving money, not fixing problems. 

3. appple's proprietary nature.  i don't like sony either.

(there is, of course, no problems of compatablility with consoles, which is much like apple's approach to PCs.)

Proprietary nature? You don't like Apple's, yet you like Nintendo, who used a proprietary disc format in the GameCube? And you don't like Sony, who uses open standards and technologies in the PS3? That doesn't make any sense.

[*kryogenix*]

Proprietary nature? You don't like Apple's, yet you like Nintendo, who used a proprietary disc format in the GameCube? And you don't like Sony, who uses open standards and technologies in the PS3? That doesn't make any sense.

I think it's because Nintendo doesn't try to push their format in order to make it the standard. Nintendo does it so people won't pirate their games. Sony on the other hand, has tried to do in the past with BETAMAX, MD and ATRAC3. Now they're doing it with UMD and BD-ROM, using their game hardware as a trojan horse.