Apple appears to think they are better at handhelds then Nintendo and Sony.

[Gazz]

Apple had a press conference today; they announced some stuff and took the time to diss the Nintendo DS (and Sony) .
In Apple’s iPod conference today, they’ve taken a shot at the Nintendo DS and PSP saying that it just doesn’t stack up against the iPod Touch. Apple’s Phil Schiller said "…And people are starting to see what a great gaming device this is [the iPod Touch]. When you think about the companies that came before us… when you played those other systems, they seemed so cool, but now when you look at them, they don’t stack up against the iPod touch."

Apple says that the combination of the DS and the PSP having no multi-touch interface, expensive games, no App Store and no in-built iPod were the main reasons for the other handhelds not stacking up. These points were argued on the slides behind Schiller showing Tiger Woods 10 and Need for Speed Undercover on the PSP and the DS with their respective price points at American retail.

Apple says the iPod Touch (and, in turn, the iPhone) also has a greater range of titles, showing all the 21,178 available games for the iPod platform towering over the 3,680 games on Nintendo DS and 607 on the PSP. No word on how many of those are fart applications.

While the iPod and iPhone gaming platform does offer all those things Apple claim (and pretty neat graphics, too), the Nintendo DS does have a few plusses over the iPod. The main one being not only that it has touch controls (singular) but also a D-Pad and buttons. There are some great games on the iPod Touch, however, usually ones that are built from the ground up for the device and use the touch screen and tilt functions over virtual buttons. However, with cheapness comes quality concerns, with the vast majority of those twenty-one thousand games being somewhere between a fart application or a shoehorned PSP or DS port that just doesn’t work as well.

This is the first time Apple has come and bluntly attacked the opposition, targeting the iPod Touch as a gaming device and not just an iPod.

Source:Vooks - Story: The Nintendo DS doesn’t stack up against iPod Touch - Apple

I surely agree the nintendo ds and PSP do not stack up against the Ipod touch. In the inferiour department that is! Better games on the Ipod my ass, reincarnations of tetris, doom and Simcity aren't better games and the frame quality is terrible even compared to the DS which has far worse specs. Ipod vs PSP is a non issue since the Touch has zero on the PSP. A touchscreen one might say, but touchscreens are gaymisorix! Look mommy, I can touch my screen, although my screen doesn't clearly display what I am exactly pressing. Thank you Apple for user friendlyness. I can't wait till my sleek Ipod touch exlopdes and cuts of my balls, Apple rules!

[Iczer]

Wow... It's kind of like Apple just decided to be a massive dick or something when doing this.

"No Multi-Touch user interface"? It's like they said "Hm, well the DS has the touch screen, but it's not worded like this!!!"

"Games are expensive"? I'll kind of concede here simply because a lot of PSP games are starting to push $50 new, but DS games generally hover between $30-40, which isn't bad at all.

"No App Store"? Oh goodness me! My PSN connection doesn't feature teh apps I don't really need/want on my PSP! It's not a phone, it's a handheld gaming console. And even then I think too many phones are trying to be laptop computers nowadays...

And someone needs to strike the idiot behind the "No iPod" note down right now. Maybe a bolt of lightning... The DS isn't set up to be some massive multimedia device, it plays games. The PSP can play music, but do you really need a freaking iPod connected somehow to your PSP that can already play music? PSP also has videos, and even picture display abilities!


It is pretty dang amusing to look at that second pic too. $10,000,000 says they're counting every single game-like app in the apple store for the iPhone, which includes like 57389 different variations of fart noise generators and "pull my finger" apps. Put out a game that can even touch the sandeled feet of Kratos in God of War: Chains of Olympus Apple, then we'll talk.

[64705]

Same old Apple overhyped bullshit. Gaming on an iPhone/Touch is nothing more than a gimmick IMO.

[ForTheCity]

Gaming on iphone and an actual handheld system are 2 completely different things that aren't even comparable.