Apple exec: iPhone is now, Nintendo DS and PSP are the past
iD Software’s Carmack once said that the iPhone is more powerful than the DS and the PSP combined. Adding insult to injury is Apple’s Greg Joswiak, who says that iPhone gaming is doing extremely well, and that the Nintendo DS and the PSP are a thing of the past.
More bashing after the link.
iD Software’s Carmack once said that the iPhone is more powerful than the DS and the PSP combined. Adding insult to injury is Greg Joswiak, VP of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing for Apple
He says that iPhone gaming is doing extremely well, and that the Nintendo DS and the PSP are a thing of the past:
The biggest category of all in the apps store has been games. There are over 1,500 games and there’s a great affinity between the iPod touch customer and those games.
And that’s part of our positioning of it as the funnest iPod ever – you’ve got your music, your video, and your games.
[…] There are already so many games and as we look at it, to us it really seems this is the future of gameplay. Whereas a lot of these devices [he picks up Nintendo DS and Sony PSP] are more in the past.
He puts particular emphasis on the iPhone’s competition with fellow touch-screen gaming platform, the DS:
The computer power and the 3D graphic power here [picks up iPod touch] is significantly greater than what you have here [picks up Nintendo DS]. So this allows people to do significantly higher quality games.
I think “fanboy” is the term you’re looking for, but he does give some very good points. Me, I’d pick up an iPhone over a DS just because the DS can’t play MP3s. Besides, Squeenix has a new Final Fantasy game in the works for the iPhone and I’m pretty stoked about it.
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