Wow, seraphic and tabsina. Did you even read my post?

@ everybody who actually read my post and responded in a constructive manner, I kinda assumed when I first read it that they would not count demos as games, but you're probably right really.

@ Tabsina (ps, I will bold words that you must read. Why would you look at revenue?

If you're looking at it from a VGChartz perspective, you count sales

if you're looking at it from a perspective of a game company considering which to develop for, you count profit/manhours the game took to make. If for example you could make 10 Iphone games that each make $100k profit, surely that's better than making a single PSP game that will end up making anywhere between -500k and 1000k

I'm not saying the Iphone isn't a viable option (it is as viable, if not more, than WiiWare), but your info didn't really say that.

er.. i wasn't arguing your point.. if anything i was agreeing with one of your points, (that it isn't a threat to sony and nintendo - and adding reason behind it based on the revenue, which is why i brought revenue up).. and furthermore, i was adding to the discussion by wondering how that 50mil actually means in terms of $ for the developers...

sorry if you felt that i was trolling, that really wasn't my intention

Btw, if it helps, i have an iphone and have bought 2 games (well.. programs) myself (along with a whole bunch of free games), so i definitely don't have anything against the prospect of more devs bringing games to the phone

@Oyvoyvoyo: I completely agree, my $10 thing was purposefully conservative for the exact point you made, that any higher, and hence more realistic estimate, would truly illustrate the difference in revenue.. and that is just taking account of one game on the ds

Ehm.. so I guess you didn't read the linked article?

I did, but I missed the fact that there was 2 pages. Still, after reading the last page, not a lot changed. They were obviously trying to present the Iphone in the best way possible, and then listing a 5 dollar game selling 500 units a day isn't really super impressive (that's slightly less than SMB does on VC), and considering it is so early out, with little competition, it isn't that impressive.

Super Monkey ball seems to be the definately best selling one, but it isn't doing anything overly amazing, I'm sure the GC game earned them at least double, and possibly triple, of what this one is likely to.

PS: Does Apple not take any royalty for  Iphone games?