"No other vendor dominates mobile games like Apple now. With over 50,000 games in the App Store, it has 10 and 20 times what Nintendo and Sony offers respectively, and this before Apple’s Game Center has even shipped."
The Nintendo DS is the best selling gaming system of all time, mobile or not. Its not even a competition - they've sold over 2x as many DS's as Apple has sold iPhones.
Not to discredit the iPhone's success in any way, but no one has come close to toppling Nintendo off the gaming throne.
To add to this, consider the number of online flash games there are. By the same logic the author is using, the best mobile gaming platform would be a laptop/netbook.
This of course completely ignores the quality of these games and the advantages that dedicated gaming platforms like the DS and PSP have.
Not sure if the article writer is American -- in many other countries 'mobile' is synonymous with cell phones, and thus 'mobile games' could be interpreted as 'cell phone games'.
The article writer can't mean this because he is comparing Apple to Nintendo. It would make no sense to do so if he meant the market that Apple is dominating to solely mean "cell phone games."
"No other vendor dominates mobile games like Apple now. With over 50,000 games in the App Store, it has 10 and 20 times what Nintendo and Sony offers respectively, and this before Apple’s Game Center has even shipped."
The Nintendo DS is the best selling gaming system of all time, mobile or not. Its not even a competition - they've sold over 2x as many DS's as Apple has sold iPhones.
Not to discredit the iPhone's success in any way, but no one has come close to toppling Nintendo off the gaming throne.