Should Sony and Nintendo be worried about losing market-share? Most definitely. The iPhone is a killer device, and its growing library of games is only getting better with time. In fact, I've been a die-hard video game player since the Atari days, and even I am racking up far more play-time on my iPhone than my PSP or DS, strictly out of convenience. When you have an audience's attention on lock-down like that, the rest of the market has good reason to be nervous. But that's far from saying Apple has much of anything to compete with the top-tier titles published for the DS or PSP at this point. What the iPhone has right now is mostly a lot of accessible, casual-centric games of extremely varying quality. Massive amounts of shovelware is readily available, but the dreck is thankfully off-set by quality efforts like de Blob, Fieldrunners, Missile Command and Apple's own Poker (even if they're in short supply). But even the best of them can hardly dream of competing with the the likes of LocoRoco, Legend of Zelda, God of War, GTA, or Castlevania, which are a very small sampling of the must-have releases tearing it up for the "other guys". These titles have had crazy amounts of time and money pumped into their development, by award-winning teams of seasoned industry vets, and it's actually unfair to even put 99% of the iPhones titles up against them. It's not just the costs of physical media that make PSP and DS games more expensive, its also the costs of developing such high quality software (which can, at times, even rival home console releases from only a generation back).

I have no doubt the iPhone will start to see a steady flow of hotly anticipated releases from publishers already firmly established in the game industry. But just because a few of them have dipped their baby-toe in the water, doesn't mean it has happened yet.

lmao yeah sure okay (:

The phrase "Jack of all trades, Master of nothing" springs to mind...

excuse me ? EA does make games for iphone, bud. why dont you pick up an iphone sometime, the quality of the games are amazing. And if its so far behind, why is it beating out psp and ds put together? yeah, thought so

Almost, all i need is for MS to develop Office for iphone, and for iphone to connect wirelessly to printers, and im done with a PC.

Second, this was just my opinion. Im 18 years old and i feel that these gaming devices are a little out dated and not suited for grown ups to be carrying. I can do t all on my iphone or ipod, why buy the other ones? It just doesnt makes sense. But others situations might be different, idk.

has your phone replaced your pc? does your coffee maker bbq steaks? why would you buy a single use device? because single use devices often perform its specific task better than the all in one devices.. my phone is an adequate mp3 player.. its not replacing my creative zen though.... the zen does the music palyer thing very well........ same with gaming. I dont expect my wii or 360 to have word processing applications. I expect them to play games. and do that one thing well. the iphone may be good for ok all around applications. it could be an ok gaming device too, but the lack of an actual button interface, combined with its high price and lack of dedication for advancing gaming apps could easily hurt it.

The ds and psp dont make sense, why buy a device if it can only play games? games get boring after awhile. (i sold my ds on ebay after 2 days of use, lost 30 bucks out of the deal)

And please dont say the psp can surf the net, its browser is horrible, it takes an hour just to type stuff in lol@psp. Ipod touch/iphone FTW!