Today's Apple iPhone event is important for gaming, and more bad news for Nintendo

[Gnac]

Euphoria14 said:

Gnac said:

Imagine my frustration when I had to tell someone that they still needed to press a button to "make the little man go". Repeatedly thrusting the wheel forward didn't work.

The most terrible thing? This person has a driving licence.

You can just touch the phone screen, thumb in the lower right corner. Unless I am misinterpreting your comment.

I already scratched the hell out of my gorilla glass with my barnacle-esque calluses. Touchscreen controls in the absence of something superior (analogue triggers are best for acceleration and braking) leads developers to come up with other daft solutions, such as tilting your phone back and forth. Really, the success of this stuff is dependent on A) those who don't know better and B) those whose livelihood depends on group A.

I know you can get gamepad solutions for phones, and there have even been attempts at creating specialised devices, but there is no damn way that one market can consume the other. There is at best, an overlap, where some games are well-suited to both control schemes. Puzzlers work especially well, and I swear by stuff like Monument Valley, Puzzle Retreat, and the excellent ports of Chu Chu Rocket! and Carcassonne.