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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 iPhone in "same league as DS or PSP" - Time

Time magazine is highly hopeful for iPhone gaming

Jonny Evans

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Apple's iPhone may become as important as the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP, predicts Time Magazine this week.

In the magazine's latest report, 'Can the iPhone Rule Gaming', Time observes, that one quarter of all currently available App Store titles are games, and seven of the top ten paid apps are also games.

The report notes that one in three iPhone users in the US are aged 26-years or less - a key group for gaming, and the ease of use and the facility with which new games and apps can be downloaded to the device also win praise.

All of these different elements - with help from key gaming titles, such as Spore, could: "Bring the iPhone into the same league as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP," Time said.

The Gartner Group predicts iPhone games will help propel mobile-phone gaming revenues in the US from $845 million in 2008 to $1.2 billion in 2011, Time also said.

Asphalt 4 from Gameloft will be the iPhone's first multiplayer, WiFi game when it debuts on 15 August, the report said.

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Kev Orng said on Tue, 05 Aug 2008

I like Crash Nitro Kart almost as much as the console version, but otherwise I'm finding most of the games I've tried are still in "proof of concept" territory.

Just because a game uses the accelerometer doesn't necessarily mean it's a good game; in a lot of games I've seen, it just means that the developer wanted to fiddle with the accelerometer. Most games still seem to be in the "woo-hoo, look what I can do" phase of new technology.

I'm hoping that iPhone gaming will get as good as everyone says it is. Crash kart is a pretty good start.

MeHere said on Tue, 05 Aug 2008

What - a toy?

Industry analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use. Yea - a toy.

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