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Nintendo, Sony on watch: Apple to debut iPhone at Walmart
- December 08, 2008 12:33 PM PST
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The impending launch of the iPhone at the nation's largest retailer will likely keep Nintendo and Sony on notice when it comes to the future of portable gaming.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds an iPhone 3G
Wal-Mart will reportedly become the second major retail chain -- after Best Buy -- to sell Apple's iPhone. The iPhone 3G will be sold for $197 for the 8GB version, a whopping $2 cheaper than in AT&T and Apple stores.
Reports about iPhone 3G being sold in Wal-Mart originated as early as November, and now, according to Bloomberg, employees in the cell-phone department at five Wal-Mart stores in California are being trained to sell the device. The iPhone was sold initially only in Apple and AT&T stores.
Many were expecting a much cheaper, stripped-down 4GB version of the iPhone 3G, sold for $99 with a two year contract. However, the latest reports say that this seems unlikely. In contrast, Reuters is reporting that the $99 entry-level iPhone is still on track. It is not yet known when the iPhone 3G will come to Wal-Mart though, as various sources quote either December 15 or December 28.
Apple's iPhone has now 30 percent of the U.S. smartphone market and almost 17 percent of the worldwide market, second only to Nokia. If Apple will really launch a $99 iPhone, the Cupertino company might end up dominating the smartphone market -- as it does with the iPod -- while other major players, such as RIM's Blackberry, could become just niche players.
Via PC World
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- Dec 08 2008 at 12:54:05:PM PST
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Kubrick wrote:
This has nothing to do with Sony or Nintendo in my opinion.
Exactly. If the article said , Motorola and Nokia on watch, it would have made some sense.
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The more than double comment was an exaggeration to make a point but they're making so much money off games in the app store that nintendo and ds have to worry. and if you seen the games they aren't the usual cell phone games you're use to. the graphics are sick , im thinking of getting one
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all of you should watch "walmart: the high cost of the lower price"... or something like that... and you should never buy on walmart again. Used to be one of my favorites, now I'll never go back there.
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It has everything to do with the big 3 of gaming, think about prior to the xbox. Now Microsoft has replaced Sega, which one will be next or will we have 4. Apple has tried unsuccessfully in the past to design a console, but with this rebirth of gaming, and Apple leading the way with downloadable content one will wonder when they will finally take there bite of the market, pun intended.
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hey the Hero of Sparta game on iPhone is dope as hell, if these type of games keep coming out for this , uhmm platform , Sony and Nintendo btter watch out for real ! And I got all the systems,
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I want an iphone badly but have Verizon and refuse to switch to AT&T but I would never buy any of these crappy iPhone games.
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maranda wrote:
all of you should watch "walmart: the high cost of the lower price"... or something like that... and you should never buy on walmart again. Used to be one of my favorites, now I'll never go back there.
And you should watch the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t! on Wal-Mart. Maybe you'll learn something other than what the liberal hippie idiots want you to learn.
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