Comments on: Why there are so many iPhone games

By: alex, LA

alex, LA — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:54:07 +0000

ha…I found a great game – road slot

By: pullman, wa

pullman, wa — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:33:03 +0000

hey Elvis, see the quote one below you…

FREE

ding ding ding! you get plenty of downloads when it's FREE! get it????

By: Elvis, San Diego CA

Elvis, San Diego CA — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:41 +0000

Blackberry games outselling iPhone games? ROFL. Link, please.

By: Small Developer, Brooklyn NY

Small Developer, Brooklyn NY — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:44:21 +0000

I'm a developer, and have 20 apps currently on the iPhone app store. While the platform is easy to write for, and extremely easy for users to find the app, my experience has been that people are mostly interested in the free apps.

One typical month for me was 800,000 downloads of my free aps, and about 4,000 for the paid ones. If my ratio reflects the rest of the app store, you will quickly see that while 500 million downloads sounds like a lot, the lions share are probably free apps.

By: Neil Anderson Coalmont BC

Neil Anderson Coalmont BC — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:08:27 +0000

Definitely joking.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:46:14 +0000

Wrong, graphics are better on iPod than on PSP. Look at the water in the two shots. Totally unrealistic on PSP, much closer on iPod. And there is no comparison between iPhone/iPod and the other, wanna-be 'smart' phones.

On your other comment below, I am not sure where you are getting your info. but next time someone tells you that Blackberry Aps are selling as well as iPhone apps, don't believe them. And you are listening to WALLSTREET as to technology? You are joking, right?

>>>Let me add that in my opinion, the graphics on the PSP look smoother than the graphics on the iPhone/iPod Touch judging from looking at the comparison of Super Monkey Ball in those screen caps. Less jaggies and somewhat better shading. Most articles seem to compare the iPhone platform to the PSP and DS, where as other cellphones are compared to other cellphones and not to pure gaming platforms.

By: j belkin, danville, ca

j belkin, danville, ca — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:26:22 +0000

Yes, the PSP is clearly devoted mainly to game playing but not only are the games more expensive but you have to CARRY EVERY game with you that you want to play … The RIMM is NOT "nearly selling as well as the iPhone let alone the 25 MILLION iphone/ipod touch marketplace … plus, good luck with your IT guy letting you buy apps to load in the RIMM store if it ever gets launched … with the iphone/ipod touch, you can buy games/apps over WiFi and who is goping to design a better user experience – RIMM? Palm or even Google (ever ty to navigate any of their non-search pages?). Contest is over.

By: Dave, Queens, NY

Dave, Queens, NY — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:47:51 +0000

I'm not sure iPhone screen resolution is such an issue when you move it around so much to control the action. I'd also try figures from a central apps store over a market census any day

McD

By: Constable Odo, Queens, New York

Constable Odo, Queens, New York — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:32:24 +0000

Let me add that in my opinion, the graphics on the PSP look smoother than the graphics on the iPhone/iPod Touch judging from looking at the comparison of Super Monkey Ball in those screen caps. Less jaggies and somewhat better shading. Most articles seem to compare the iPhone platform to the PSP and DS, where as other cellphones are compared to other cellphones and not to pure gaming platforms.

By: Constable Odo, Queens, New York

Constable Odo, Queens, New York — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:25:02 +0000

A few things still don't add up to me. If you go to youtube and check out comments on many games, people say that the iPhone/iPod Touch variants aren't that much better than some of the other platforms such as the BlackBerry or Palm or WinMo devices. Secondly, if you go to the App store, there are so many complaints that $3 – $5 games are TOO expensive. I'm puzzled by that TOO expensive statement. I don't know if these comments are written by elementary school children or what. But even so PSP games are certainly more expensive, so I can't imagine what they are comparing it to. They must think that developers are overcharging for development on the Apple Mobile platform. Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that games for the PSP are currently better than the ones on the Apple Mobile platform (at least for the time being). I don't believe people complain that much about the cost of PSP games even though they're way more expensive than those from the App Store.

One more thing. I've seen articles that said BlackBerry and iPhone/iPod were running very close together in games sales and BlackBerry doesn't even have an App Store. I wonder if Apple really does have all that large an edge in game sales or is this Apple gaming platform lead just an exaggeration. Wall Street is clearly not impressed by App Store sales, so I tend to think Apple Mobile gaming is being blown out of proportion. It's definitely not promoting increased iPhone sales for sure.

I'm noticing that although the PSP is initially less expensive than the iPod Touch, if you purchased a half a dozen similar games you can somewhat say they are a lot closer in price since games for the PSP could cost three to four times as much. Of course, I hadn't heard any mention of PSP or PSP game sales deteriorating. Just iPod Touch sales dropping due to it's higher initial cost.