c0rd said:
richardhutnik said:
Smashed said:
Because it's so much harder developing for the iPhone as opposed to PSP or DS?
Get real Apple.
Out of the 50,700 there's probably a couple games worth playing anyways.
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Which are those? If you can't even name the candidates, then you are just speculating out of fear that your expectations of what the game market is, isn't what you thought. At this point and time, the iPod/iPhone platform has supplanted the PSP. Sony released the PSP Go to compete with the iPod/iPhone and failed to gain traction. This is not a good place to be in. Nintendo went with the DSi also to counter Apple to. I would be concern about all this, and not brush it off as "wow, the iPhone just sucks".
You may, for example, consider doing some googling:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=0BU&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&q=top+games+for+iphone&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
The iPhone has Tiger Woods Golf, among other games for it that are of note.
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I doubt Nintendo's DSi had anything to do with Apple. They brought it out in Japan because sales were slowing down (they nearly lost the year to the PSP).
@ the article:
Bragging about the number of games makes little sense. The DS isn't stomping the PSP's sales because it has 2,000 more games, it's the other way around - developers jumped on the DS because it sold tons. It's mainly Nintendo's first party games that are responsible for the success of the system, and they've made what, 100 or so games?
It'd be like comparing the number of PC games with those on home consoles. It doesn't tell us anything. Revenue, or sales, on the other hand...
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What is known now is that Apple is going into the portable game business, and has decided to have something like Live for the iPhone. They are going to be pushing games also, and are now a competitor that I would suggest people not take too lightly. As you said about the DS, the iPhone takes off in sales, as it has been, it will be getting all the apps, and more core gaming. As far as the DSi goes, Nintendo did release something to bring in functionality seen in the iPhone and other more mature portable platforms.
