http://blogs.computerworld.com/18781/will_the_apple_iphone_5_kill_nintendo

This showed up in my Alexa toolbar, and it irritated the hell out of me. I know when an article has a byline that says "Apple Holic", I shouldn't take it seriously, but honestly, that just pissed me off more. Also, "Appleholic" is one word, you fucking stupid piece of trash. You can hyphenate it if you really want, to let us know it's an oh so clever pun, but it's still one fucking word.

First off, why go after Nintendo exclusively? It's not like Sony or Microsoft are frothing at the bit to release games for the iOS, either. PSP and Vita are both viewed as competing with the iPhone, and the Windows Phone was launched SPECIFICALLY to try and kill the iPhone.

Secondly, the iPhone 5 won't kill Nintendo. I haven't been able to find any concrete information on the iPhone 5 because the Google search results are 95% spam blogs, but unless the iPhone 5 features a radical redesign that includes multiple buttons and D-Pad, then we'll be getting the same crappy gaming experience that we've been getting. The iPhone currently offers a gaming experience somewhere between subpar DS controls and subpar Atari 2600 controls. The fact that games are the biggest category in the App Store is not indicative of the games being good, it is indicative of piracy. In 2011, iTunes giftcards are one of the safest choices out of there to give as a gift. And in an age where movies and music are easily pirated, people need something to spend their iTunes giftcards on. And that is games. Alternatively, with the all money people save by pirating music and movies for their iPhone, they are more likely to be receptive to throwing away money on games. But iOS was solely a gaming platform, it would fail. iOS is something that plays games, if you're really bored or desperate to play games. It is not a serious gaming platform that can play any sort of serious game. Hell, even something as basic Final Fantasy I would be a chore to play on the iOS.

At the end of the day, this article is the same sort of whining we hear from elderly techies like Jonny Evans all the time. They liked Nintendo when Nintendo was trendy, and they still have fond, trendy memories of playing old Nintendo games, but now that Nintendo's not trendy, they want to be able to play old Nintendo games on whatever trendy platform they're currently using.

"Hai, why doesnt they nintendo have any mario games on the iphone or 360? i want mario on my iphone."

You're an idiot. Shut up. Die.

Yeah, there are some completely brilliant ideas on the iPhone. For example, Angry Birds. Sure it's simple, but it is brilliant in its simplicity.

But you are really limited in what you can do on the platform.

Cave, one of the most famous (and one of the only) modern shmup developers recently declared that they would be shifting their focus from consoles to iOS dule to lower dev costs and dire financial straights. This is a lose-lose situation. The iOS is an awful platform for shmups. AWFUL. So if Cave's shift succeeds, then their decision is vindicated and they continue to focus on making crappy iOS games. If the shift fails, they go out of business. I don't know which of those ideas are prefer. I suppose I prefer seeing them fold, so that their top programmers might start over somewhere else. And even if they didn't start over, I prefer no games to bad games I won't buy.

N*Gage had two major problems:

As a phone, it was unwieldy.
As a gaming device, it was annoying, because you had to remove the batteries to change the cartridge. I think this may have been fixed in later models.

For Apple to buy Nintendo, Nintendo would have to be for sale. Presumptively, at least 51% of the stock shares aren't on the market.

iPhone games are what you play when you can't get at actual games. You know, like how sometimes alcoholics drink mouthwash.