Buying experience for DS and PSP is poor says marketing boss
The competition between iPhone, PSP and DS is hotting up - Apple used its iPod showcase event today to highlight its position in comparison to other handheld games platforms.
Specifically, the firm moved to crticise the buying experience for the DS and PSP in comparison to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
"When [DS and PSP] came out, they seemed so cool. But once you play a game on the iPod touch, you think 'hey, these things aren't so cool any more..." said Apple's marketing VP Phil Schiller.
"We're talking about 25, 30, 40 dollars a title. The kids can't afford those titles. Worse isn't the price, it's the buying experience."
A demo slide at the event compared the quantity of games on the platforms: PSP's 607 games, DS' 3,680 and then iPod touch's 21,178, before kicking into a video montage of App Store games.
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Quantity over Quality
Quantity isn't always better than quality, and in this case it isn'.
Real Games
Ya, but do you see any really GOOD games coming to the iphone/ipod? I'm sorry, but i am one of the rare people who has PsP, DS, AND an ipod touch. Psp sucks, no good games, or very few. Ipod is great...if you like bejewled. DS is wonderful, so many wonderful titles, and a powerhorse built for gaming on. Have you PLAYED phantom hourglass? Ipod can't replace my gaming devices. It doesn't have the controls I need. (Try using motion to move while driving down a bumpy road.) Your finger is too big for acurate movement (For example, Vay on the ipod touch, moving was misery.) Apple, you want to make a gaming device, make one. Don't just think "Hey, this thing is powerful, I bet it would work! Lets market it!" Yes, it'll work, but will it work well? Nintendo is making a surprising comeback, and you've got your work cut out for you apple. Just ask sony, they got OWNED.
User Input Devices
The iPhone and iPod Touch are great bits of hardware, but only suited to certain types of gaming. Without a dPad, Analog stick, multiple keys or an actual touch screen ( NOT capacitive as it is now ) you really CAN'T play fast paced games on it.
Tilting the screen is all well and good, but I'd rather keep the screen still and control the game with proper input devices. Tilting and moving the device seems like a great idea, but after a while it's annoying unless the game is trying to emulate the real world e.g. get the marble in the hole type games.
If they released an official stick/dPad add-on free with particular games then it would quite possibly kill of PSP and DS, well that is until DSi and PSPGo! are now on the scene... watch out Apple, they're coming after your "online superstore" sales model.
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