Apple is the new enemy for Japanese gaming Company Nintendo, not Sony with their PS3 or the XBox 360 from Microsoft claims senior executives of the world’s #1 gaming Company.
Apple is the new enemy for Japanese gaming Company Nintendo, not Sony with their PS3 or the XBox 360 from Microsoft claims senior executives of the world’s #1 gaming Company.
The Times in London, claimed recently that Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata has told senior executives in the company that the battle with Sony is long over. Even with the upcoming PlayStation Move set to take on the Wii’s waggle, Nintendo isn’t concerned. Instead, Iwata has his sights set on Apple.
Iwata describes the iPad and iPhone as the “enemy of the future.” There is apparently a “mood of concern” at Nintendo as all divisions hope to “restore the capacity to ‘surprise'” consumers again. The leaked reveal of Nintendo’s 3DS was surprising, so it may have hidden cards up its sleeve.
He is reported to have said that with the NES and the SNES, Nintendo was able to cement itself as a name synonymous with videogames. After those two consoles, Sony snuck into the industry and changed what many people once simply called “Nintendo” to “PlayStation” with the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2. This has changed in the current generation, with the PlayStation 3 failing to catch on as well as previous consoles, while sales of the Nintendo Wii have far surpassed it and the Xbox 360. Nintendo doesn’t currently expect to be on the bottom of Sony’s boot ever again.