{"id":6411,"date":"2009-07-30T19:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6411"},"modified":"2013-05-29T21:32:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:32:27","slug":"iphone-puts-hurt-on-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/iphone-puts-hurt-on-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Puts Hurt on DS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8809\" alt=\"iphone-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/iphone-S.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/>JULY 30, 2009 \u2022 In a conference call, Nintendo Co. Ltd. attributed softer sales of its DS and DSi handhelds to Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch, not Sony Computer Entertainment&#8217;s PSP. Nintendo also warned that its fiscal 2010 profit would likely drop for the first time in years as a direct result of competition from Apple&#8217;s mobile products.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: It is somewhat surprising that Nintendo would admit to competition from Apple&#8217;s mobile products.\u00a0 However, it could also be that slower sales are due to the market being saturated with DS owners.\u00a0 The new features of the DSi simply may not have been enough to convince DS owners to upgrade.\u00a0 Nintendo&#8217;s profits in the past few years have been incredible and having them come down from the stratosphere should not be a major surprise.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 30, 2009 \u2022 In a conference call, Nintendo Co. Ltd. attributed softer sales of its DS and DSi handhelds to Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch, not Sony Computer Entertainment&#8217;s PSP. Nintendo also warned that its fiscal 2010 profit would likely drop for the first time in years as a direct result of competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}