When you consider the cost of the dev kit, $99 for the iPhone when compared to several hundred if not thousands when compared to the others, it’s not surprising that game developers are taking a hard long look at the platform. When the iphone user is willing to part for more then a few dollars for an equivalent level of game (found of the PSP or DS), you might suddenly see a lot more high end titles been released, until then, don’t expect it to change quickly. I’d imagine some of the allure of developing a game for the iphone or ipod touch specifically over say, a DS or a PSP is that in the case of the former, there’s a large user base who’re more likely to have the device on them at times where they’re not looking specifically to play a game, but maybe they’ve got a few minutes to kill and you might be able to get a few bucks out of them for a puzzle game or something. Much in the same way Amazon (or even Apple now… Potentially) likes having an ebook reader with an always on connection because it makes content accessible to a user base who is most likely to spend the most money, I suppose Nintendo and Sony are quite happy to spend at least some of their time catering to an audience who has proven quite happy so far to spend more money on individual games than iphone users seem to want to spend on average per application. Then there is the issue that if 19% of handheld developers write for the iPhone or iPod and only half of those write for the DS and/or PSP, that then means that 81% of handheld developers do not write for any Apple, Sony or Nintendo product. read more
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