Apple claims 50 percent of portable gaming market

[Narmer]

Why buy $1 shovelware on the iPhone when you get buy $20 - 30 shovelware on the DS and shuffle cartridges?

HEY, keep Style Savvy out of this. I won't stand around and have it insulted.

 

[MJinZ]

What a load of bullshit. How many iPod touch users actually use the thing as a gaming device? 10%? The iPod Touch SUCKS for gaming, touch-based gaming in general sucks.

<-- owns an iPod Touch and will never own a portable gaming device, but thinks this is fucking retarded.

You are correct sir.

But there are lots of retards in this world.

 

[MJinZ]

Solitaire!!

Rawrg!!!!

 

[herkulease]

Its spin. I don't have the transcript but from the slide companies can easily fudge the numbers to give themselves #1 or claim they outsell something.

Apple can narrow the list by saying it outsells ds/psp combined amongst 25 to 40 y/o and still get away with it.

Its liek those movie ads. they claim #1 box office some are legit #1. others they quickly add genre like #1 comedy or whatever.

the apple events is just like a giant commercial. Commercials will try and lie as much as possible to make their product look good.

 

[slayer202]

how can ANYONE take apple seriously when jobs is such a douche nozzle. it blows my mind...

 

[Dominato3r]

how can ANYONE take apple seriously when jobs is such a douche nozzle. it blows my mind...

Well, he's selling millions of units on almost every product, I guess he's doing something right.

 

[IGBT]

gadgets for the mindless masses.

 

[Dumac]

Why buy $1 shovelware on the iPhone when you get buy $20 - 30 shovelware on the DS and shuffle cartridges?

Every system has shovelware. The difference in that the DS also has QUALITY games, something that the iPhone lacks. The iPhone library consists or almost purely shovelware.

 

[Dumac]

God damn dude!
You are the angriest person I've seen here since me. WTF is wrong with you? Too much love? Not enough? Dropped? Shaken? What?

Lol he's TFP. it's what he does.

I find it quite funny, even when his anger is directed towards me

 

[TuxDave]

Every system has shovelware. The difference in that the DS also has QUALITY games, something that the iPhone lacks. The iPhone library consists or almost purely shovelware.

What's wrong with Civ Revolution? I got it for free! wooo

 

[dwell]

Every system has shovelware. The difference in that the DS also has QUALITY games, something that the iPhone lacks. The iPhone library consists or almost purely shovelware.

That's BS. There are plenty of quality games on iOS.

 

[Nik]

It's pretty much common knowledge that Steve Jobs is out of touch with reality.

 

[Nik]

That's BS. There are plenty of quality games on iOS.

Agreed. Someone who says that the iPhone/iClone models don't have any games have obviously never seen the contents of the iStore.

Ugh, I can't believe I'm taking Apple's side on this issue.

I learned a lot about the Apple Store when I bought an iPod.

 

[MJinZ]

That's BS. There are plenty of quality games on iOS.

I kno rite? Like SOlitaire!! OMG WE ARE SO COOLZ YO!!!!

 

[MJinZ]

Agreed. Someone who says that the iPhone/iClone models don't have any games have obviously never seen the contents of the iStore.

Ugh, I can't believe I'm taking Apple's side on this issue.

I learned a lot about the Apple Store when I bought an iPod.

I am like SO COOL that I play games on my IPhone that has no buttons! LIKE OMG YAYZ!!!!

 

[Nik]

I am like SO COOL that I play games on my IPhone that has no buttons! LIKE OMG YAYZ!!!!

Yes, because video games can only be played with physical tactile-feedback analog button pads. Obviously.

 

[Nik]

The 4 games I have on my iPod are Texas Hold'Em, Tetris, Fruit Ninja, and Flight Control.

Flight Control is freakin awesome. I first played it on a Droid, got hooked, had to have it.

 

[MJinZ]

Yes, because video games can only be played with physical tactile-feedback analog button pads. Obviously.

Like OMG Tetris and Solitaire are video games now. Like lolololol cuz that's like Civics are Supercars yo?!!?! VTEC!!!

 

[Nik]

Like OMG Tetris and Solitaire are video games now. Like lolololol cuz that's like Civics are Supercars yo?!!?! VTEC!!!

You seem to think that it's reasonable to compare an iPod to an xbox 360 or something.

Way to logic, bro.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

What a load of bullshit. How many iPod touch users actually use the thing as a gaming device? 10&#37;? The iPod Touch SUCKS for gaming, touch-based gaming in general sucks.

<-- owns an iPod Touch and will never own a portable gaming device, but thinks this is fucking retarded.

before I sold my iPod Touch in August 2009, I had:

1.1 GB in music, 1.4 GB in apps. Before iOS 2.0, I listened to music on the car only. Once apps rolled out I completely ditched music.

It was my gaming device. It was my surfing device. I tethered it to my phone (yes suck it Android users.... Ive been tethering since the days of Symbian S60 straight out of the box)

There's nothing wrong iwth it as a gaming device. I could spend $10 and get a bunch of addictive games that easily make the device worth it already.

Every system has shovelware. The difference in that the DS also has QUALITY games, something that the iPhone lacks. The iPhone library consists or almost purely shovelware.

Eh. The $0.99 spent on Angry Birds is well worth it. It's more high quality than $10 will ever get you on the DS. There's plenty of good $9.99 games too. Look at Real Racing 3D for example. In fact, if you follow Touch Arcade like I did for a few months, you'd see how many amazing games come out for the iPhone.

Don't they mean more than? Or am I missing something really obvious?

I caught that the minute the article came out. I always thought it was a sarcastic comment designed to poke fun at Apple's claim. But maybe not. I wasn't sure so I read the comments on Engadget, but only a few dealt with that statement. The rest were fanboys slinging mud at each other, so I couldn't conclude anything.

The 4 games I have on my iPod are Texas Hold'Em, Tetris, Fruit Ninja, and Flight Control.

Flight Control is freakin awesome. I first played it on a Droid, got hooked, had to have it.

I don't want to count how many hours I've spent on Flight Control but my gf and I used to compete endlessly. She ended up concluding that my screen protector gave me an advantage due to friction on my iPod compared to hers. The one on Android doesn't even compare. The cartoon-ish way the iPhone app was designed just makes it adorable. The same goes with many other apps. The same goes with Angry Birds. Glad they finally brought the latter onto Android.

 

[dwell]

I kno rite? Like SOlitaire!! OMG WE ARE SO COOLZ YO!!!!

You're one of those people who still won't admit Nintendo handed Sony and Microsoft their asses this generation. OMG WII TEH WAGGELL!

 

[MJinZ]

You seem to think that it's reasonable to compare an iPod to an xbox 360 or something.

Way to logic, bro.

Like OMG we can't possibly compare it to PSP or DS where epics like FF7 are played like NO WAYZ gotta go to consoles/!?!?

 

[Nik]

You're one of those people who still won't admit Nintendo handed Sony and Microsoft their asses this generation. OMG WII TEH WAGGELL!

They didn't. There aren't any real games for the Wii. They're all kids games, really. The graphics are awful.

The ONLY reason the Wii is kicking ass in sales is because it's cheaper than the rest.

Period.

PS3 kicks ass as a movie player and is gaining momentum in the game library area.

The 360 is still the king of adult console games.

 

[Nik]

Like OMG we can't possibly compare it to PSP or DS where epics like FF7 are played like NO WAYZ gotta go to consoles/!?!?

The iPod/iPhone is not in the same market as the PSP or the DS. They have completely different target markets.

Fail some more, please. Oh, and act like a child while you continue fail, too.

 

[QueBert]

yeah gaming on iPhones sucks

Field Runner
Flight Control
GI Joyride
ZombieVille USA
Hi How Are You
Bike Or Die
Doodle Jump
Parachute Panic
Ragdoll Blast
Rasta Monkey
Rolando
Tiki Towers
WordFu
Just Fillin'
HomeRun Battle
Angry Bird

Those are just some of games I've bought, all fun as hell.

I'll go so far as to say despite having no physical buttons my iPod Touch is by far the best portable gaming platform I've ever owned. And I've owned about a dozen different ones over the years.