Which means that I have not used it at all since I got my iPhone – and I actually play more games on my iPhone than I used to on the PSP, due to the “smaller” nature of most iPhone games. Simple, quick games like Galcon are simply better portable games than any of the games I own on the PSP.

Another great feature of the iPhone is its store. If I’m sitting in a train and bored with a PSP, I have the stuff that I put on it before I left. With the iPhone, I can buy a new game whenever I want.

All told, of course, the DS is still the king of gaming.

But i seriously cant see how you can ever start to compare the two.

one is a phone…(and an internet browser and an sms sender and a cammera.. steve jobs you wanker)

…And the other is a hand held gaming console.

‘Nuff said.

Some real challenges I see for the iPhone are:

1)A significant percentage of users likely aren’t seriously interested in games – they want a good pone and mail/contact/calender manager. Games are secondary; which limits market size.

2) Touch controls are more difficult to master than real buttons – especially some genres such as FPS where multiple buttons are used to control firing, running, jumping, etc.

3) Impulse shopping for videos is difficult – I’d gladly pay a few bucks for a movie when my flight’s delayed or to catch up on a TV show on a flight – but can’t purchase unless I can get WiFI access.

I do see where you are coming from, when I had my psp it was hacked, that was the only way to go. But I could have made this article go on forever if I included all of that. So I kept everything “stock”. But like I said, I know where you are coming from.

Now this is in NO way an advaocation of video game piracy, but…load times are drastically reduced by loading games from ISO files which can be stored on SD Cards for the PSP.

This covers 2 of the cons indicated in the PSP section, sure, the PSP may only have WiFi where iPhone has 3G..

Lack of multimedia capability..once again hackable through firmware hacks. (to a certain extent)

Just out of curiosity, does the iPhone offer online gaming through Ad-Hoc mode or anything like that?

Developers still have to figure ways to make gaming on button free touch screen work in their favor. Some creative minds will come up with ideas and others will build on top of that. I would expect that the dynamics of this battle will change a year from now as the iPhone attracts native games rather than ported games.

I think the iphone is totally capable of hosting PSP quality games, but developers need to approach the game design process the same way they do with the PSP: as a full length console game that happens to be on a portable device.

People are excited about SPORE on the iphone (I am too!), but has anyone played “Tombraider Anniversary” or “Metal of Honor: Heroes” on the PSP? We get “Need For Speed”, but remember how awesome one of the first games released for the PSP was – “Wipeout Pure”? (which would also be a perfect candidate in my opinion as an accelerometer based game).

If we want these types of games on iphone, we’ll have to pay for it like we do on the PSP…but that’s ok! Give us REAL games and we’ll pay for them!