Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated

Re:Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Over... by Samuel_Michon on Sunday November 06, 2011 @11:53AM (#3203113)

"to claim Apple was wildly more influential seems flawed by the numbers."

I didn't. My message is to please use recent figures for the entire platform, not old sales numbers for just iPhones. Also, nowadays Apple sells more iOS devices than Nintendo sells handhelds and consoles. Nintendo and Sony had a head start, they've been passed by Apple in just four years.

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Re:Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Over... by nirvdrum on Sunday November 06, 2011 @02:27PM (#3203536)

I never really understood comparing those numbers anyway. As impressive as iPhone sales are, they're not all used for games. Every DS/PSP/3DS were sold with the intention of playing games on. Gaming on my iPhone is terrible, IMHO. Angry Birds can be entertaining, but any comparable game to what I play on the DS is just too frustrating to play on a touch screen-only device.

From my observations, facebook has had a much larger impact on gaming than iPhone has. I have plenty of older relatives that'll tend to a virtual farm on facebook but won't play games on their phones.

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Re:Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Over... by ohashi on Sunday November 06, 2011 @12:54PM (#3203299)

Fair enough on the numbers, thanks for posting the updated figure. DS was 2004 and Wii was 2006. Iphone was 2007, it wasn't that big a head start.

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