[quote name='caltab']the iphone, ipod touch, and soon to be ipad are a legit player in the gaming market. There are games that have sold millions. There are more games on the app store released on a daily basis then the psp has released this year. Sure, a lot of them aren't very good, but there are a lot that are incredibly addictive and a tramendous value. For example, gameloft had a .99 sale for dungeon hunter just this weekend. It lasted for about 5 hours for 1 play through on one character class- I know of no other comparable value on the psp or ds. There are dozens, if not hundreds of very fun games on the app store that are very inexpensive and sometimes free. How many are on the PSP? I love nintendo hand held IP like mario, zelda, ect and nothing on the iphone can replace that, but there is legit content to be enjoyed. Square enix is working on an original rpg for the iphone, and the guys from professor layton are making a puzzler unique to the platform that looks pretty much identical.
As far is it hurting the competitors, I might be rare(I honestly don't know), but there is no doubt the app store has severely cut back my consumption of PSP and DS games, and even 360 and PS3 stuff.
To the poster who complained about cost of apple products...while you might thing an ipod touch is expensive, the content available is a far cheaper- just look at GTA on the app store for 10 bucks or plants vs zombies for 3. Also, to people saying they don't want an iphone- you certainly don't need one to make use of the app store, I use am ipod touch myself. I believe there have been over 20 Million ipod touches sold- that is a HUGE number you are overlooking if you only are considering the iphone as the consumer here I actually have had an iphone since day 1 and never played games on it because I didn't want to waist my battery, it wasn't until I got a free ipod touch that I found the app store. Certainly, If you have an idevice and haven't checked out the app store, you are missing out on some great gaming bang for your buck.[/QUOTE]
you should have just called me out
I don't like the iphone because there isn't any at&t service. touch is nice, but then you have to look past that. it's the iphone OS that I don't like, it's the whole app store I don't like. I don't like iTunes either.
Apps have been around forever... Windows Mobile had 100,000,000s of apps before Steve jobs even thought of the iphone. Alot of those mobile apps were either free or cheap too, just unregulated and all over the place, with no "store" to control content.
I like apps, I like alot of free/gnu apps. With Apple saying yay/nay it's like I'm only using what Apple wants me to use.
That's why I don't have a mac either. I like software, I like games. Neither of that is found on macs. It's like a socialized dictatorship, you can only use this, buy that, and have no access to anything but Apple.
Think different... that used to be their moto... but with every version, it's all the same. HW, SW, snobbery, and use. Again, Apple products are appliances, if it's out of it's warranty and it breaks, you're stuck having to buy a new one. I already deal like that with toasters.
I don't want the center of everything to be locked down on this tiny little pda. Digital distribution is also another factor I really don't like, I like to own physical media and I just don't feel like spending that much on games to waste time. I'd bring my DS if I truly would find time to spend. Otherwise I'd probably just browse the web instead.
As for games, the ones that bought the iphone are probably the same relation to the Wii, they just found a new snobbery market to tap into. I don't think it was ever stolen from DS or PSP but just added to the whole share.
And ANY game on the itouch can't, and will not touch the depth of a DS/PSP game.
