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Potent quotables: Satoru Iwata
“It was a bigger iPod Touch,” unimpressed Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said of the iPad that Apple unveiled on Wednesday.
Yeah, cause the DSi XL isn’t just a bigger DSi. Which isn’t just a DS Lite with a camera. Which isn’t just a DS that’s not hideous. And the Wii certainly isn’t a Gamecube with a motion controller. And let’s not even get started on Gameboy …. 
Aaron on
January 29, 2010
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I don’t recall the iPhone being an instant smash hit in the gaming world, so when Chris Kohler says it “isn’t there today,” I kind of tune out. No shit it’s not there today. EA had like two and a half weeks to work on that Need For Speed demo? And I doubt we’re going to have all their best ideas fully developed in the 20 minutes immediately following the unveiling.
On the other hand, the iPad isn’t going to be on your person all the time, like the iPhone. So I don’t think people are going to be able to keep doing what they’ve been doing for the phone and make it profitable on the pad. The phone works well for relatively simple, small-screen, quick games. The iPad, though? There’s definite potential for adventure games, or turn-based strategy, or oh god even real-time strategy games on that thing.