World of Warcraft on an iphone?

[Smartazz]

Play WOW on an iphone?
I think this would probably help their already ridiculous sales.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

could people get any lamer?

 

[pontifex]

highly doubt its true

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
could people get any lamer?

Yes, they could police online forums putting down those they deem nerdier than themselves.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: pontifex
highly doubt its true

Same

 

[KMFJD]

Shens

 

[Kev]

Shens^7827818478214

 

[novasatori]

I dunno
what speed is its processor?
We used to use one of the old mac power books with a 466 or something and radeon 7000 (?) to play wow... heh

edit: and it only has 256mb of ram

 

[Acanthus]

It's possible, we all know Iphones are DX9/OGL ready and have 512MB of high bandwidth DRAM. (this is sarcasm)

 

[Noema]

Though, given the fact that the iPhone will probably sell hundreds of millions of units worldwide, I wouldn't be surprised to see a streamlined lite WoW client that gave you
full access to the game, just with basic graphics.

 

[Bateluer]

If I ever were to see someone playing WoW on an iPhone in an airport, I would be morally obligated to yank the device from their hands and throw it as far as I could. For their own good, of course.

 

[Genx87]

I dont know, is there a Mac WoW client?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Genx87
I dont know, is there a Mac WoW client?

Yes, however, i seriously doubt the iphone has the necessary memory badwidth (or even amount in this case) for a 3d application.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Genx87
I dont know, is there a Mac WoW client?

Yes, however, i seriously doubt the iphone has the necessary memory badwidth (or even amount in this case) for a 3d application.

Yeah, no idea, what is the GPU in that thing? Some of these things are getting upto some pretty decent graphics capabilities and with that small screeen it doesnt need to push a lot of pixels.

Be interesting if it could be done, that is for sure.

 

[Roguestar]

SHENS

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Genx87
I dont know, is there a Mac WoW client?

Yes, however, i seriously doubt the iphone has the necessary memory badwidth (or even amount in this case) for a 3d application.

It's running OSX (or a derivative of) which in itself is a 3D application. It has to have some sort of graphical prowess to do all of that. I doubt it's enough to run WoW, but running 3D apps is no problem for even older phones. Hell my 2003 windows smartphone could run doom and duke nukem well with sound, so I wouldn't put it past the iphone to run better stuff. Wow isn't scalable enough to run on such low end stuff IMO, but it's probably not too far off.

 

[hdeck]

there's a link on digg of a guy playing wow on his iphone, but he's just using an application to stream the content from his laptop.

 

[novasatori]

I saw a video of a guy playing wow on a small pc with windows xp that was basically about the size of an iphone

I dunno guys, like I said we used to use the mac client on a 466 g3 macbook with osx and 256mb of ram, and it ran fine so until I see what gfx/cpu the iphone has I'll wait to call shes..

 

[wheresmybacon]

even if it's possible - which i doubt - how the hell are you going to do anything meaninful with pretty much no way to control your character? no mouse. no hotkeys.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Hmm, if this is true, maybe... just maybe we could have DS emulation?

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: hungfarover
even if it's possible - which i doubt - how the hell are you going to do anything meaninful with pretty much no way to control your character? no mouse. no hotkeys.

it's a touchscreen... quite possibly the best alternative for a mouse there is

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
<SHENS

Thats hot!

 

[ForumMaster]

well the iphone has a 620Mhz Samsung ARM processor and so it might have be able to run a special version of WoW. but why? the screen isn't big enough and you need a keyboard. i seriously doubt this.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
could people get any lamer?

Unfortunately, they can. It's what keeps Apple in business.

 

[dds14u]

While games on the i-phone are old news:
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=14691

I doubt you're looking at just typical cell phone games.