| chalksalad said: It's my understanding that with the current development tools, porting to a new platform is quite easy and doesn't cost that much. Why not make an extra buck with quick ports of well known IPs. Does anyone know of any exclusives for the iphone/ipod from one of the biggies? I mean actually spend time to come up with a new idea and money to develop a unique game. Smaller studios are taking a larger risk but there games don't cost that much and quite a few of them are worth more than the selling price. |
There are exclusives from big publishers, such as Song Summoner from Square-Enix and Surviving High School from EA, but not ones which took a large investment in content or advertising. Y'know, the exclusives that get people excited. A big exclusive IP would kinda go against the point of low-investment, low-price, digitally distributed games.
The iPhone is getting a surprisingly strong array of multiplat support both in terms of ports of old console and PC games and new releases. I wouldn't have expected a Sports Active title on the iPhone.
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