Some interesting stuff is going on over at the Apple iPhone SDK meeting. See screenshots of proof of concept games here (including stripped down Spore!): http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/live-from-apples-iphone-press-conference/

Einhorn from SEGA is on stage now.

Some great things are being announced.

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Wow, I can see why they had to delay Leopard's release because of the iPhone. They were porting most of Mac OS X and it's programming tools onto it.

Spore and Super Monkey Ball. Developers choose price and get 70% of the revenue.

Mobile gaming devices might have cause for concern, if they didn't have a massive price advantage.

@ famousringo, I don't like the accelerometer based games at all, I have a couple of games on my (hacked) iPod touch and i'm not a great fan of the accelerometer based games. Anyway, I have lost all my faith with apple cause they are charging iPod touch users to get these devices.

 Wait for the Google Phone (Or rather, the range of Android-based mobile phones).

The thing I hate is Apple charging for updates on the iTouch, but yet it's free on the iPhone. It's funny to see them and Microsoft playing nice also. The way I see it is they both need each other.

Unhacked iPhone here, so I don't have any experience with that. What are the specific problems you've seen so far? Not enough sensitivity? Perhaps official games will have better implementations with the fully exposed and documented API.

Besides the accelerometer, I do think the high profile of the iPhone will cause at least a few well made games to be developed by the big guns. At the very least, I'll be happy to play a tetris clone on my iPhone.

I'm kind of skeptical about the potentential of the accelerometer control. Is isn't that exactly what the Sixaxis offers and what everyone hated about Lair? I have to say that audio and video are impressive. Way beyond any other phone and right up there with what the DS and the PSP can put out.