Speaking to Forbes, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said they have no intentions of making a smartphone/gaming device, no matter what their competitors do. “Certainly we are adding more and more elements to fill out the experience and take away more and more time from competing devices,” Fils-Aime said. “But our handhelds will always lead with games… 3DS content will be dramatically unique to our platform, because I don’t think a smartphone manufacturer will invest to put a 3-D parallax screen in their device and not have the content to bring it to life.”
Fils-Aime then addressed Apple in particular, which of course he previously told Forbes is a bigger near-term threat to Nintendo than Microsoft (and, by extension, presumably Sony, too). “What I have on Apple is content, because it’s our content,” he said. “That will give Nintendo a long-term competitive advantage.”
