Experts say Apple has been gradually occupied the handheld market
Well-known Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter said the game market is currently Apple’s iPod touch in the handheld field becoming more and more important, the traditional handheld game has been plunged into a crisis of survival. Well-known Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter said the game market is currently Apple’s iPod touch in the handheld field becoming more and more important, the traditional handheld game has been plunged into a crisis of survival.
Michael Pachter is in their own program “Pach Attack Show“, presented these ideas. It is reported that the handheld market has been close to saturation, the emergence of Apple’s iPod touch and rise, but also led to the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld as the representative of the traditional slump.
Most potential users of handheld games for the young teenage children, but compared to the traditional handheld, Apple’s iPod touch looks cool, more features, in addition to playing games, they can listen to songs, or even by communication camera to take pictures. For the young consumers of these factors have a strong appeal. This is also the performance beyond the traditional handheld iPod touch is an important factor. [On the future of 3DS and the Sony PSP 2 (itouch accessories), Michael Pachter is not very optimistic about their performance, he said 3DS After a hot initial offering will become dull after a while the PSP 2 rumors but there is a may be directly aborted. On the other hand with the iPod touch hardware is on the rise, and its sales there will be further improved, while more and more free games will be iOS log on to the Apple platform.
PS3 also dominated the host side, which lasted 5 years of racing game masterpiece “GT5“ finally on sale in November(latest psp accessories), the first week after the listing out of the 410,486 copies of the transcript (Media Create statistics of 43 million), and immediately leapt to the game list first, lie at the root to help PS3 more than doubled sales week.
Pachter to Tetris, for example, if the player wants to play similar games like Tetris, his platform of choice, what would it? The answer is that many people will choose to iPod touch instead of DS, the reason is very simple, basically the same both in the case of hardware prices, many parents prefer to spend 1-2 dollars to buy iPod touch game, and not to choose up to 30 -40 dollars in DS games. This is the handheld market, an important reason for the turning point, if the handheld can not be the traditional time for change, then future development will be increasingly difficult. From: wholesale psp accessories