I mainly enjoy JRPG, so I have Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Dimensions, Symphony of the Origin, The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy Tactics, Lunar: SSSC, Chaos Rings 1 & 2, etc...

I also got Ace Attorny Trilogy HD, which costs $17 on iOS instead of the ripoff $30+ they ask for on 3DS.

Great games, great prices.

Gaming is once again doomed just because of a new iphone?

What a disgustingly elitist post. 

Oh yeah, iPhone doesn't cost $600-$800. Buy with contract costs $200 and unlike the 3DS you don't get charged $30+ for a game.

It has better online too w/ friend challenges, achievements, friend lists, high scores, etc... via Gamecenter. Games are priced better too. Squids costs less on iOS (1/3rd the price), Ace Attorney Trilogy HD costs less on iOS (Half the price).

So stay elitist and enjoy being left behind as the rest of the world moves forward. No amount of your terrible attitude will change it.

Most of those are turn-based right? I can certainly see turn-based games working with the touchscreen.

Turn based gaming is fantastic on a touch screen. Same goes for point and click, rts, and even racing.

People had no issues playing MKWii with a wheel and tilting the wiimote. Same gameplay is present in iOS racers.

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.

Ipad which i presume is more for gaming is down 9.2% compared to last year

iPhone launched in 2007. This year is their 8th annual update, an doesn't change anything on the device in terms of a gaming center. It's not going to effect Nintendo any more than previous years.

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.