Nintendo games, direct from iTunes
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 8:47am by Jack
I don’t particularly believe this weekend’s rumor that Nintendo games might soon be sold through Apple’s iTunes media service, but since Infendo hasn’t touched anything iPhone yet I thought I’d have a bit of fun.The rumor is just that — a rumor. Barely. I think I’m posting about it because this week is going to be super slow. The calm before the E3 storm, you could say.
Some site I’ve never heard of and will probably never visit again:
There is a rumor saying that the iPhone will support Nintendo games. They will be available through the iTunes store for $29 each. This rumor is not senseless, as Nintendo today has a large amount of games already working with a touch-screen on the Nintendo DS. Also we know that games will be targeted mostly at older audience so as not to block DS sales.
Both the Wii and the iPhone share a few things: they are both made up of pre-existing technology that’s been reshaped, marketed to a mass audience by geniuses, and have (so far) disrupted the heck out of their respective industries.
So that go me thinking. The iPhone has some Bluetooth capability, and so does the Wii. If some ingenious hacker out there was able to link these two hype machines together, I think the world would simply explode.
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
This is the most useless, idiotic rumor ever, even if it is a slow news day you should have some integrity and not post this kind of garbage… Oh and PS3 is expensive,? 600$ for a PHONE? c’mon…
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:21 am
Sheesh, stalis, did someone pelt you in the noggin with an iPhone this weekend, or what?
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
“This rumor is not senseless, as Nintendo today has a large amount of games already working with a touch-screen on the Nintendo DS”
If that’s all it takes to make the idea of DS games getting shoe-horned into an iPhone, then why don’t we have a DS phone?? The DS has a microphone and speakers after all! Isn’t that all that a phone is?? Isn’t new software all we need to get the “DS phone” working?
(I’m just being a pain here, of course…)
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
No, I’m in Europe so I won’t be seeing an iPhone for a long while..
GRR!!!
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
doesnt matter, if i understand the article correctly, its talking about selling DS games that can be played on the iphone, but does he mention 3 of the biggest barriers to such a thing?
first, the games for consoles are licensed. they would have to have a separate license for the games to work on the iphone. they cant legally sell them without relicensing.
second, the DS isnt just touch screen. using dual screen ensures you cant do a simply play on some other small device. ROMs are probably already bothersome enough with your monitor screen needing to be split to see both screens now. and unless psp2 gets a dual screen it wont even be playing these games for that reason alone.
third, these games would definitely need to be ported over to the iphone one by one. which means convicing developers its worth their time to do this. this one is less of a block since the other 2 prevent this from even being considered, but this is still yet another block even if they got through the other 2 hurdles.