50 million Iphone games purchased

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scottie said:

scottie said:

Anyway, the Iphone is not really a threat to either Ninty or Sony, as Apple is going for market expansion, but my point is that the Iphone is very much a viable gaming platform, and should become more so in the next year or two

 

Wow, seraphic and tabsina. Did you even read my post?

 

@ everybody who actually read my post and responded in a constructive manner, I kinda assumed when I first read it that they would not count demos as games, but you're probably right really.

 

@ Tabsina (ps, I will bold words that you must read. Why would you look at revenue?

If you're looking at it from a VGChartz perspective, you count sales

if you're looking at it from a perspective of a game company considering which to develop for, you count profit/manhours the game took to make. If for example you could make 10 Iphone games that each make $100k profit, surely that's better than making a single PSP game that will end up making anywhere between -500k and 1000k

 

 

 Because we can see revenue exact.

Take Nintendogs, a game that would have gone even with 500K sales (including the late ads). We know pretty much the revenue, but we don't know the profit.

 

I don't get why you are upset with Tabsina really.

 

You make a flawed point in the OP. You take that the Iphone has sold equally much software to the PsP, but you do not. 1) Include PsP software/free downloads. 2) You include Iphone free downloads, which should pretty much be at least 2/3 of the total. 3) You compare the number of full, 30 dollar PsP games to 5 dollar 1 hour Iphone mini games. 4) You say that it should be a viable platform, solely by looking at sales numbers, ignoring profit/revenue. How many Iphone games are there? What is the best selling one, and what price was it sold at? Could these games have done just as well on DS, if not better?

 

The way I see it, it looks like the Iphone has ~ 15M solid game sales (excluding demos and free games), and that is being generous. That's pretty comparable to Virtual Console/Wiiware for Wii.

DS is getting VC (and WW?), so I think that is the only thing on DS that the Iphone could really be compared to as a viable option.

 

I'm not saying the Iphone isn't a viable option (it is as viable, if not more, than WiiWare), but your info didn't really say that.