Apple talking some smack on the DS and PSP! Madden coming to the iTouch/iPhone!

10:47AM Alright -- the 49ers versus the Steelers!

10:47AM "We're excited to be back to talk about one of the largest franchises. It's coming to the App Store... Madden NFL 2010."

10:46AM Finally, EA. Travis Boatman is taking the stage.

10:46AM You can listen to your iPod music while playing the game. The game will have multiplayer over Bluetooth and WiFi.

10:45AM Wow. These graphics are amazing. Very Halo like. Really stunning graphics on this game, and the frame rate looks solid.

10:44AM Mark Hickey from Gameloft. "We're giving you a sneak peak of our latest product, an FPS called Nova."

10:44AM Big cheers for that. "Next up, Gameloft. Today they ship 35 titles in the App Store. They have almost 20m downloads."

10:43AM The music changes based on how well you're doing. If you screw up, it sucks the bass out. "Thank you, and rock on!"

10:42AM Wow, it's like a combo of Wipeout and Rock Band.

10:42AM He's introducing a new game: Riddim Ribbon. This looks pretty fun. The demo song is Boom Boom Pow.

10:41AM "Good morning. When we launched a year ago, our crazy goal was to get 1m users... we got that in 3 weeks!"

10:40AM Next up, Bart Decrem from Tapulous.

10:40AM "We're bringing this to market on the day and date with the other console versions."

10:39AM Ha! You can put your own photos on wanted posters in the game.

10:39AM The game is very Prince of Persia -- it's a bit more of a straight up sidescroller than the previous one it looks like.

10:38AM Ben Mattes, Assassin's Creed producer. "Apple has created a world class gaming experience on this platform." He's showing off the sequel to AC.

10:37AM "We're going to ask some devs to come on stage and show you some things. First off, we're going to bring up Ubisoft."

10:37AM Big cheers for that. You know who hates this? Sony and Nintendo.

10:36AM Demo video of all the games! With some... rock and roll.

10:36AM He's discussing the high prices and bad experience of buying standard console games... and that leads into some props on the App Store. Rightfully so, it is revolutionary for this kind of content. "There are 21,178 entertainment titles in the App Store."

10:34AM "And people are starting to see what a great gaming device this is. When you think about the companies that came before us... when you played those other systems, they seemed so cool, but now when you look at them, they don't stack up against the iPod touch."

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/live-from-apples-its-only-rock-and-roll-event/

Its true! Apple did it right.

They're really setting their sights on Nintendo and Sony now. The game quality in the App Store is really starting to get good, too. Developers are basically bringing over any game that has a good touch interface and doesn't really need the second screen.

According to Apple hardware numbers, there are 30 million iPhones out there and 20 million iPod Touches. So the hardware install base is now the same size as the PSP, but it got there in about half the time.

touch screen plus standard button interface give DS versatility iphone dosent have

games are expensie on DS because they are FULL games, The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is not doable on Iphone

no app store? DSiWare begs to differ

no ipod? well DSi has SD support so you can (and I have) turned it into a music player

damage control done!

Fuck that, most app store games aren't even worth the $2 they sell them for.

Madden!

Ha! I was thinking that Phantom Hourglass would be one of Nintendo's games which would be easiest to do on iPhone. I admit that losing some of that stylus precision might downgrade the experience, though.

I do feel slightly burned that I bought Civilization: Revolution for my DS at $30, and a perfectly capable iPhone port is now available for $3. It's hard to justify paying DS prices for a game if I can play a good iPhone version for 90% off.

Quantity does not equal quality. Most of the stuff on the app store I wouldn't bother with even if it were free.

The most interesting thing is that Apple really trying to position iPhone/iTouch as gaming platfrom. I'm suprised.