That it is bad that someone allows their emotions to be tapped into by a storytelling medium says something of our society D:

you don’t have to be the best at anything to be crowned “the best”. That sounds silly but you only have to chosen more. Sales will crown the best, the iPhone is a gloried “itouch”. You are right but millions have a true “need” for a smartphone. So they pickup the iPhone. Which. Oh by the way, gets you where you need to go with turn by turn directions. It is an “iPod touch” because it serves up media like any other player. Back to the gaming topic it will let you play almost any game imaginable and growing. To the hardcore gamer(the 1080p game with out of your mind storyboard, running at 36+fps) maybe the iPhone is not the king gaming platform. But they aren’t maketing to this gaming demographic..yet. They are marketing to the entire middle to upper class. From soccer moms->>>>to the business professionals. From the 18 year olds with a job and a humble flat–>> to the 13-14 year old silver spoons that have had PDA/smartphones since there first one. When you ad this demographic in the iPhone is the hottest gaming platform on earth.

@Chris: If you handheld games are scaring you and making you cry, I suggest going back to your Tickle Me Elmo. Seriously, are you 9 years old???

The most expensive game I’ve seen for the iPhone is $10. Most games for the DS and PSP are 3X or more as expensive. Many of the games that are a “waste of time” cost less than a bottle of water and time wasters are the point. The iPhone gaming platform is getting better all the time.

You are entitled to your opinions but when I read your posts, you are usually complaining about the iPhone or Apple. That makes me believe you are pretty much just a troll.

If you are going to state the iPhone platform is a dud, why not move on to something else?

If I was a little kid, I would carry a DS/PSP with me. Well I don’t have either one but I would never be caught dead carrying one and whipping it out in the public. iPhone on the other hand it generates interest from people but it’s good attention.

He doesn’t own an iPhone. He’s a BB user.

Well, there goes your credibility…

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The thing that makes the iPhone great is that it adequately replaces multiple single function devices. It is unlikely that any one device that has so many functions will ever truly out perform a high end device dedicated for just that purpose. So it isn’t likely to ever replace a true gamer’s handheld, a hacker’s computer, or an outdoorsman’s GPS device. But the fact that it performs all of those functions adequately for a layperson is what makes it the most popular device on the market.

Trying to say it is better than a DS or a PSP is probably untrue… but if I owned one, I doubt I’d always have it my pocket when a had 10 minutes to kill, nor would I be able to surf the web with such a device if I got bored with playing games.

Choices are good!

I agree with that 100%

And buying the games is important both to the sellers (and apple) but also to the players who become tired of them quickly and buy another one, because its so easy.

The real story here is not that th iPhone is a good gaming platform.

The real story is that the App store is a better Game delivery platform.

I love my DS but buying games for the iPhone is so much easier with iTunes than having to go to an actual store or wait on a mail order.

Push comes to shove, convenience will win out (almost) every single time.

If the Iphone were to get dedicated controls then it would be in prime position to compete but I hope it keeps gaming as a secondary feature. I honestly don’t want the Iphone to become a mobile gaming device like a DS or a PSP.