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Sony Takes on iPhone's Growing Mobile Gaming Popularity in New Ad
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I despise almost all Sony products, especially the PSP. Sony is only good for their TVs, and sometimes not even those. On this issue, I would take an iPhone 4 over a PSP any day, and not because I hate Sony, but because I know an iPhone is made to very high standards with good materials. Sony still makes their piles of poop out of PLASTIC! How outrageous. My iPhone 4 could own any PSP's processing power as well. Sony should stand for Stupid Old Nasty & Yucky.
lol @ using southpark to make an argument. I suppose you believe ethernopia is real country in africa too right?
/facepalm
Thankfully, South Park showed us what "real gamers" look like.
lol and stuff.
Nice, fiction imitating life...
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That's how I feel as well. I would much rather have an iPhone 4 in my pocket over a psp or a ds (no way am I carrying all three). The gaming aspects of the iPhone are good for those moments you find yourself waiting somewhere with nothing to do, like a long line for an amusement park ride for instance. Same goes for the internet capabilities, but that has more uses as well.
Meanwhile, with a PSP, there is literally no game on that system where I wouldn't be thinking about how it would be much nicer to play it on a PS3 with a full gamepad on a HDTV with surround sound. That's what all these PSP games are. Butchered PS2/PS3 type games that you can take with you out of the house.
So another ridiculously small niche.
I really think that what I refer to as casual gaming is the future of gaming, market wise.
why?
Because if the future of gaming becomes nothing more than Words with Friends and Fieldrunner clones, it would be a terrible thing
Because somehow that means that the blockbuster games that millions of people look forward to every year will just disappear right?
It's a different model for a different audience. There is no reason why the two can't and won't co-exist. Take a look at Nintendo's wii for christ sake.
"Gamers" probably aren't the target market for Apple's gaming goals. It's more the non-gamer who will play a game on the subway because they're bored. If they didn't have that iPhone, they wouldn't play any game or bother owning a DS or a PSP or anything else. I'm in the third category - those who don't play games. I'm grown.
Because somehow that means that the blockbuster games that millions of people look forward to every year will just disappear right?
It's a different model for a different audience. There is no reason why the two can't and won't co-exist. Take a look at Nintendo's wii for christ sake.
Ok. First you said the future of games would be casual games now you're arguing about blockbuster games. I have no clue what you're referring to now and whether or not you're talking about mobile gaming or something else
By iPhone standards, Angry Birds is a blockbuster. So is any game that starts with the word "doodle.". God forbid the future of gaming becomes games that require a development time of less than a week and make you wonder why the iPhone bothered to incorporate a GPU
That's more of a testament to how crappy the PSP's library is than anything else
iPhones are not for serious gaming, but neither is a PSP. DS is better, but even there 99% of the titles are **** like Imagine Babies! The iPhone suits its gaming niche beautifully.
Also the Marcus adds have always been off putting to me. "I'm a kid with attitude, there for this system is awesome!"
Also the Marcus adds have always been off putting to me. "I'm a kid with attitude, there for this system is awesome!"
Oh I got it. What would be funnier is a pic of my roomie and his apple nerd buddies when they come over and have their annual slumber party before mac world... but they're prolly on this site and I'd get busted