Apple May Beat Nintendo DS, Sony PSP With iPhone Games
May 18, 2009
Washington (dbTechno) - There is no doubt that the Apple iPhone and the App Store have proven to be a huge success, more of a success than Apple could have ever dreamed of. With that said, do they have what it takes to beat out the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP?
Nintendo has always been the king of handheld gaming, but they are now facing a new challenger in the form of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Never before has Nintendo faced a competitor such as this, where the device’s sole purpose is not necessarily as a gaming device.
Nintendo has beaten out competition in the past with the Sony PSP, Sega GameGear, the Nokia nGage, and many more, but the iPhone poses a real threat.
This is due to many reasons, with the first and most obvious being convenience and price.
An App Store game can be purchased for anywhere from nothing, up to $9.99, while a Nintendo DS game will run you anywhere from $20 to $40.
On top of that, the quality of the iPhone games is now reaching the point where they can go toe to toe with any game developed on a handheld.
This does not mean that they are epics such as Legend of Zelda, but they are getting close.
A lot of this is going to weigh on what Apple does with the release of the new iPhone.
With more ram available to developers, more hard drive space, and more capabilities, we may see a whole new handheld war in gaming.
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The press is going rampant these days with hyping the IPhone as a gaming device. But it has a flaw as a gaming device that makes all the difference: no buttons.
Gaming, especially action gaming needs tactile, real buttons that you can push, press, trigger, hold, squeeze … just like ebook readers, having no tactile sense for these buttons feels awkward. The feedback real buttons give the player are important for quick reactions, speedy repetition, fine adjustments.
Seriously, the device can have the greatest games of all time (which it has’nt), and still not work as a gaming device if all it has is the best touchscreen in the world. That is not enough.
Give it a rest, please. Never going to happen.
I have a Nintendo DS Lite I bought back in 2006 with 4-5 games one of them being SimCity DS (which is not that good as SimCity on Apple’s App Store), and two Mario games Super Mario 64 DS, and NEW Super Mario Bros and have really enjoyed it. I also have an 80 GB 5th generation video iPod with click wheel also purchased in 2006 with some click wheel games from the iPod Games section of iTunes Store but am now considering buying an iPod Touch and playing touch screen games from Apple’s App Store.
Why an iPod Touch over the iPhone directly you might ask because I don’t want to sign a contract with AT&T — I prefer Verizon and iPod Touches can have more storage space than iPhone — hope to get the 32 GB Touch (if they made a 60 GB or 80 GB though I would use one of those even) — the iPod Touch can run all the games from Apple’s App Store available to IPhone. Aside from my DS Lite I have a Nintendo Wii that is cool — in the handheld space my next portable game system will be iPod Touch. I think for someone like me it provides more bang for the buck — a better value than going with DSi.
Of course some will still buy DSi but those like me addicted to Apple’s App Store its iPhone or iPod Touch. Aside from threatening Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP the iPhone/iPod Touch model can be quite a challenge for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile strategy and for Palm soon to release the Palm Pre cellphone.
“This does not mean that they are epics such as Legend of Zelda, but they are getting close.”
I’d like to know what the writer classes as an i-phone game which “gets close” to Zelda.
They are not even remotely close.
Good sir, nintendo never beat PSP out of the game unlike Sega etc. PSP is alive and still exist, leave iphone and it’s crappy control out of my games