“Nintendo’s president shrugged off the just unveiled iPad tablet computer from Apple as delivering ‘no surprises,’ and displayed as little enthusiasm for 3-D technology and high-definition upgrades for games. ‘It was a bigger iPod Touch,’ Satoru Iwata said of the much anticipated device shown Wednesday by Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs,” Yuri Kageyama.
MacDailyNews Take: The iPad FUD talking points memo begins with “It’s just a bigger iPod touch.”
Kageyama reports, “He made no pretense to hide he was totally unimpressed with the iPad. ‘There were no surprises for me,’ said Iwata.”
“Apple says the iPad is a new kind of mobile device that is more intimate than a laptop but is packed with more functions than a mobile phone,” Kageyama reports.
Kageyama reports, “On Thursday, Nintendo reported April-December profit fell 9 percent as solid year-end sales failed to make up for the weak results for the earlier part of the fiscal year, a rising yen and a price cut for the Wii.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We expected more from Nintendo’s president. Like manners and some imagination, to name just two. Of course, seeing Apple’s A4 SoC, a faster, more efficient processor than NIntendo (or anyone else) can buy off the shelf along with DS/DSi sales evaporating before your very eyes can take its toll, we suppose.
You know what’s so great about Nintendo’s DSi? You can set up your WiFi at Nintendo’s system level with, say, a WEP security password and then run a game and, for some incomprehensible reason (to an Apple product user at least), be asked to set up WiFi again, this time within the game itself which, oh by the way, doesn’t work with a WEP password. Then you get to reset your WiFi base station and try all versions of WPA passwords which also don’t work, so you resort to opening up your WiFi to the world, so that your daughter can download a heavily-pixellated rhinestone-studded denim skirt. Then you get to reactivate your WiFi’s WEP password with the anticipation of doing this rigamarole all over again approximately 30 times per day for the next two weeks until your daughter realizes that that her hand-me-down, no-longer-activated, two-and-a-half-year-old original iPhone with the cooler, better-looking games that cost 1/6th the price or less (many of them free) is way, way more fun. Then you get to eBay the DSi at a loss to the next sucker and get on with your life. Thanks for spending so much time thinking out the user experience, Nintendo.
Now STFU and take your medicine like a man, Satoru. And, oh, by the way, nice stylus. (smirk)
Nintendo’s president is exhibiting some of the classic signs that accompany the recognition of harsh reality: Denial, disbelief, and self-delusion.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. – Jane Wagner
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud
Another stupid fskup.
Flush his sushi ass down the commode with the others.
No surprises:
It was expected to be a tablet. It is.
It was expected to be awesome. It is.
It was expected to run the iPhone/iPod OS and apps. It does.
But on a bigger screen. It does.
All of that is awesome—no surprises needed!
Wait, I guess there were some surprises: cheap 3G with no contract, iWork, the custom Apple chip, the physical keyboard option, and the PRICE.
@Macarina
The DS has physical buttons. Therefore some people will ALWAYS prefer if for CERTAIN retro game types.
Yet it lacks tilt and multitouch, is slow, has a tiny screen, and has no app store. So it will never catch up to Apple.
Facts.
Mr Reeee, are you telling me – without having seen it yourself – that the iPad, with its single CPU core running at 1GHz is going to be a better gaming experience than a console with multiple CPU cores running at 3.5GHz? Doesn’t sound reasonable.
Will it play entertaining games? Sure. Will it do a better job than an iPhone? Unquestionably. I never even suggested that it wouldn’t be able to play games reasonably well. Not once. Just that it would not excel at what certain other computers consider their bread and butter. That isn’t what it’s about. Can they run iWork or MSOffice? Not a chance. Nor even a made-for-them version. It isn’t what THEY do. Apparently, they don’t even surf the net worth a fig. Else more users would bother.
Perhaps if the ipad came preloaded with hello ikitty he’d be impressed.
It’s obvious that Apple is Nintedos greatest threat! Their business model will never be the same or as profitable!
You know what is ironic? Dismissing the iPad as a large iPod Touch when your company is about to start selling the DSi XL (a large DSi). The last time Nintendo surprised us was last year with the unveiling of the Wii Vitality Sensor, a peripheral that will surely corner the market of hospital patients, particularly those who are comatose.
Free Nintendo DS Lite Games Download (NDS Roms)
http://www.tips29.com/2010/01/free-nintendo-ds-lite-games-download.html
“Nintendo always lags when it comes to modernizing their gaming experience and that’s kicked them in the butt before. They pretty much lost an entire console generation by sticking with cartridges while Sega and Sony moved to discs. Now as gaming is done increasingly online, Nintendo is late to the party.”
Apple is late to the party sometimes too, took them a while for SD Card Slots, still no Blu-Ray, still no fingerprint recognition. I love Apple but it really pisses me off that I can’t make a Blu-Ray disk with iDVD.
“Why would people prefer fixed buttons over multi touch interaction with games. It’s like the guy sees a car and asks, where do you put the horse?”
You’re obviously not a gamer are you? Gamers like to float their fingers on buttons, something you can’t do on iPod Touch or iPhone. I downloaded Mega Man II and Sonic the Hedgehog on my iPhone, these games are normally easy for me on traditional handhelds and consoles. Oh. My. God. It was like trying to learn how to play video games on iPhone!
That being said, the Nintendo DS still has better titles at this point in time than iPhone. There is only a few interesting games on iPhone. DS has games like Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, comign soon Golden Sun 3, ect. I’m into RPGs and so far there is not a single decent RPG released yet for the iPhone OS platform. Just saying…
The iPad does indeed look like a giant iPod touch. But, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I wasn’t sure I would use my iPod touch very much but I bought it because I felt like I would use it more than an iPod nano. I was right about that. As it turns out, I have loved my iPod touch. Interestingly, I only use it for music maybe 10% of the time.
I will be looking at the iPad when it comes out.
I’ve never been impressed with Nintendo. When I think of the hours of my life lost playing their boring, repetitive games…
But at least their President got the idea that:
The iPad is a BIG iPod Touch that does 3G. The end.
Why MDN considers this fact to be FUD is inconceivable. It’s OTHER comments about the iPad that are FUD. Deal with it MDN.
hi there one thing nintendo dsi is epic fail becuase nintendo dose not want there nintendo dsi become a full blown nano computer that would have made the dsi the domanate player and crush there compution why dont nintendo just go back and bring the nintendo dsi 2 out as a full blown nano pc say like a duo core or a quad core cpu 1 gb of ram and 4 gb flash drive suport flash html5 video quick time players and why wont nintendo have video confrencing video recording the dsi could have been the first full blown nano pc if nintendo was smart enough
hi there one thing nintendo dsi is epic fail becuase nintendo dose not want there nintendo dsi become a full blown nano computer that would have made the dsi the domanate player and crush there compution why dont nintendo just go back and bring the nintendo dsi 2 out as a full blown nano pc say like a duo core or a quad core cpu 1 gb of ram and 4 gb flash drive suport flash html5 video quick time players and why wont nintendo have video confrencing video recording the dsi could have been the first full blown nano pc if nintendo was smart enough
I’ve nevered cared much for iPhone/iPod Touch games. I Find touchscreen controls awkward. Same with iPad.