Nintendo Reports Huge Losses

For the first time, Nintendo has reported huge losses. $458 million in losses, to be exact. How could Nintendo improve their profits? Apps, how else? Nintendo has always stated that their games would only be available on their own hardware. But that strategy hasn't been working well for them in the past few years. Demand for Nintendo portables like the 3DS isn't as high as it used to be, thanks to smartphones. The sort of games you could usually find on these handhelds are available on smartphones. In fact, they also have games thawee old not be be available on Nintendo handhelds, like a wide variety of third party apps, games, and even more mature games, such as shooters. People aren't willing to shell out the cash for Nintendo hardware just to get a game or two that they'd enjoy. So, if you can't beat them, join them.

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A Reminder: Apple isn't the only Company Overseas

Apple products are primarily manufactured by Foxconn. If you're been reading the news lately, you might have read about poor working conditions in Chinese factories, or how our economy would improve greatly if some of that manufacturing was brought back to the US.

Foxconn alone can include Acer, Samsung,  Dell, Microsoft, Nintendo, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, HP, Nokia, Motorola, Asus, Sony, and many more as customers. You probably haven't read too much about that lately though. Odd, isn't it?

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Nintendo Investors Want Mario on iOS

Nintendo investors aren't impressed with Nintendo's 3DS. Nintendo is losing a lot of ground in the mobile gaming market. Investors aren't happy about this, and they don't think a portable gaming system is the best way to compete with it. They think Nintendo should start putting games on mobile phone operating systems, specifically iOS.

With both Android and iOS, you can install emulators. Sure, you may have to side load it on Android, or jailbreak to get it on the iPhone. But once you do, you can play a large number of games, many of them from Nintendo. This is money Nintendo is losing because they refuse to sell their product on the systems customers want them on: their phones. Users would gladly pay for these games if they were released, but Nintendo has refused to comply.

Nintendo has been dead set on keeping characters like Mario, Samus, Pikachu, and Link on their own hardware. But, with increasing pressure from investors, perhaps we could, at the very least, see some classic Nintendo games on the App Store in the future.
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X-games

Microsoft Inc. not first time makes an innovative product, thus Xbox 360 did not become an exception from the constant rule.

Xbox 360 by Microsoft Inc.

Along with ultrafashionable design, the console possesses excellent technical characteristics, indisputable advantage is the excellent choice of Xbox 360 video games, competent Internet community and smart support service. In aggregate these factors also have defined popularity Xbox 360 among gamers all over the world.

Besides, Microsoft offers players 3 variants of consoles Xbox 360: Arcade, Pro and Elite. Thus, everyone can individualise a prefix for itself. Whether it's care of gamers? Yes, certainly!
Likely each gamer who has tried this prefix in action, will find many arguments in advantage Xboх 360. Developers of the most popular computer games now choose this platform for the products (thus, Nintendo DS video games it's the past tendency).

Also, the DVD-player and television format of HDTV gives the chance to look video films, thus quality of a TV-picture is not worse, than on a large-format TV-screen.
Besides, for this game console there is a set online video game rentals, thus you can always have access to novelties of video games for a moderate payment.

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