| Rath said: We'll have to wait and see what impact Apple has on the gaming industry. My guess at the moment is not much. |
Actually, Apple will have a huge impact on the gaming industry. They will completely change the publishing/distribution of games, and the change is already happening and visible. Of course, they are not alone in this: pretty much the same model has existed on the PC for many years.
@diglet
OpenFeint and others will be the losers, although the Game Center is still a developer preview and will not be released for quite some time. But I believe Apple will make it so easy to implement it for devs that the other platforms will have a hard time competing. OpenFeint, for example, is not hard to integrate into your game but it has a number of annoying characteristics and design decisions. Still, I use it currently, and perhaps they can gather enough mass before Game Center is launched to stay in the game.
