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Our totally normal Nintendo DS ad is ready to print, boss! (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

since the Wii

I mean the iPhone came out a year later…

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The App Store didn’t come out until the summer of 2008. Before that the iPhone could play a primitive version of Bejeweled and that was about it. Also, if I recall correctly, they were well into the iPhone 4 before they even started to come close to Wii sales numbers. The 4 being the first that worked on carriers that weren’t AT&T or that used the same bands in other countries.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    That’s fair. Forgot about the delay on the App Store. Still I’d say the pipeline of Wii gamer to iPhone gamer is pretty small. Maybe more on the developer side than customer.

    Phones put gaming consoles in everyone’s hand and made non gamers into casual gamers.

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