iPhone games put the heat on Sony, Nintendo

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shams said:
50m games downloaded - with an average price of around $2. Remember that more than half the games on the service are FREE. So that might be $100m-150m of revenue - with Apple taking 30% ($30m-$45m).

On the other hand, Nintendogs has shipped more than 20m copies - with Nintendo raking in $10-$20 per unit. So make that $200m-$400m of revenue, for Nintendo (alone) from one title - released 4 years ago. I'm sure they are quivering in their boots.

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The lack of buttons is a killer for me. Any game that really requires heavy button use just doesn't work very well - the lack of tactile response is horrible.

The iPhone/iTouch is excellent for *some* types of games, specifically "unique" games that use the accelerometer. Then again, one of my (gaming) friends tried MonkeyBall on the iPhone, and absolutely hated it (with a passion). But that might have just been the game.

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If anything, the iPhone will hurt the "casual, mobile" market - rather than the hardcore (handheld) gaming market.

Its the business model that is attractive - and that is why digital dist games are coming to both the PSP and DSi...

 

 Very well written. I wrote something like this in the other thread, but it lost the point. I agree completely.