Jobs claimed that he made the number one portable game player in the world.
For some reason that statement slipped past hacks who should have asked, "more than Sony and Nintendo?". They didn't of course, they believed him and wrote it down.
By January Nintendo had sold 125 million DS systems and Sony had sold 62 million PSPs. Jobs said that Apple has sold some 120 million iOS devices. This includes the iPod touch, but tens of millions of iPhones and iPads as well.
If he means just the last quarter then he would have to beat 3.15 million from Nintendo and 1.2 million PSP units from Sony. So how much did Steve manage to flog, then? Apple won't say because that is commercially secret information and it doesn't want to make Steve look a tit.
Analysts are siding with Steve. Forbes Oliver Chan suggests said that Apple sold more than 4.35 million iPod Touches last quarter. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster flogged 6.8 million last quarter and could sell 7.2 million in the quarter that ends this month.
But what Fortune appears to have forgotten is: since when the iPod been considered a portable games machine in the first place? While the iPod Touch has the same abilities as an iPhone, a Nintendo DS it ain't.
And neither are the games available for the iPod Touch anything like the games for a DS.
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