I'm shocked to see Marco criticize what is essentially the "Apple" of the home gaming market. Both Nintendo and Apple have changed their industries on three sep

I'm shocked to see Marco criticize what is essentially the "Apple" of the home gaming market. Both Nintendo and Apple have changed their industries on three separate occasions: >> Nintendo|Apple brought home gaming|computing to the masses with the NES|Macintosh. >> Nintendo|Apple revolutionized mobile gaming|phones with the Game Boy|iPhone. >> Okay I run out of steam here but Nintendo put out the Wii which halted the home console race-to-the-bottom, while Apple changed portable music with the iPod. The above hints at how Nintendo and Apple play similar games. They're very skilled at disrupting industries, they create products that appeal to consumers' emotions (whether by nostalgia or design aesthetic), and they don't make dumb business decisions. I'm not saying Nintendo is fine. It's clear that Nintendo faces stiff competition, but that's true of any consumer electronics company. What, Nintendo only sold 4.3 million 3DSes in its first five months? That's not much worse than the 5.27 million DSes they sold six months after launch [0]...or the 4 million iPhones 2Gs Apple sold 6 months after a price cut. [1] Nintendo is a great company. The 3DS price drop shows they're considering their future place in consumer electronics. Marco's comments on their situation aren't novel or insightful, so this is kinda-sorta a fluff article (one of several we've seen recently from him and Gruber). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_sales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_sales [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg#Data_and_references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_s...