Rumorang: The brewing Apple/Nintendo "war"

If you believe everything you read, then by now Apple should have already merged with Nintendo, released a game console and taken over the portable gaming market with the iGame. The New York Post has mixed up all three of these recurring rumors and comes up with a "juicy" story about an imminent war over portable gaming between Nintendo and Apple.

The key to the speculation is the recently unearthed Nintendo patent for a motion-sensitive portable. Since the iPhone already has an accelerometer (albeit not an overly sensitive one), obviously this means that Apple has been "secretly plotting its foray into portable video games for months" and that the announcement by January's MacWorld show will "put the two tech titans in direct competition."

Never mind that Nintendo hasn't announced any products based on this motion-sensing patent (ditto for their iPhone-like cell phone gaming and multi-touch portable patents). Never mind that the games currently available for the iPhone are largely crappy, web-based Javascript clones and that third-party applications currently have to run through the Safari web browser. Never mind that the persistent rumors of Apple getting into gaming have been around for at least two years now with nothing more to show for them then some simple iPod games.

Apple is getting into games! And Nintendo should be worried! This time we're serious! Trust us!