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06/10/09
The most important part, however, is that this is retroactive. Existing applications need to be updated, and if they aren't they'll be automatically rated as the most restrictive rating, 17+.
So yeah, problem solved without ESRB. They just want to make cash from the review fees but Apple is eschewing them.
What makes the iPhone/iPod an attractive platform is how easy it is to publish applications for it, and adding ESRB (or any other rating board) to the process would ruin it. I know I wouldn't publish anything if I had to deal with them.
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This generation is so spoiled, god damn.
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I had to buy my own.
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06/07/09
Oh, Apple & Nintendo, you guys should seriously team up. You both would make BILLIONS. I'm sure of it.
06/07/09
Naturally, the seal pretty much likes everything that is read to it.
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It was a seal that garanteed that the game was tested by nintendo and it would play without capping your hardware. And it's the same for any game on any console now, but back in the day of the atari systems you could buy games that didn't even boot.
And that's the same that apple already does with their apps.
And it's kinda funny that anyone asks for this since people have been nagging apple since day 1 for the aprooval process and claiming how bad the censorship has been and now people want them to just put through the quality apps but not censoring anyone.
I do agree that there has to be a better way to sort through the apps to find them... in my case i just do the same as i do with videogames in any system... I read the review sites and articles and if something is interesting and has a lite version i use that one and if i like it i buy the game, or if it's cheap enough and seems fun enough i buy them.
You also can ask for you money back if you don't like something.
06/07/09
While nintendo/sony or microsoft doesn't reject everything below tripple A quality, there is quite an extensive list of requirements the game must fulfill and becoming a licensed developer to begin with can be quite a long process. From what I've read about the Iphone it's just a very small fee to become a licenced developer and you can publish pretty much anything.
An open platfrom sounds great for indies in theory, but in practise I just don't see it working. It's next to impossible to get any attention on a platfrom where there are 5 new space invader clones created by 14 year olds released every day. I think a licencing system is really needed to become a serious platfrom for games, especially for digital distribution.
Admittedly I don't own an Iphone so I don't know quite how bad the situation is. But if you download 5 random XBL Community games you'll quickly see just how important the seals of quality are
06/07/09
It's no easy situation for apple.
It's like when the "I'm a millionaire" or something app made it through the appstore. People were bitching how apple was so iresponsible for letting some developer charge $1000 for an useless app. Then apple takes it down and people start bitching because how dare they censor an entrepreneur, and that if "people wanted to pay for the app they should let them"... or the whole debacle of the NFSW apps that apple was an evil corporation for not letting them through and now they are an evil corporation because there are too many damn fart apps. =)
Where i'm going with all this is that yes, applestore is very far from being a perfect busines model, but there's also the unrefutable fact that people are whiny bitches over the internet no matter what =D
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Could it happen?
*raises eyebrow*
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I can't see it replacing my DS, but I want in on whatever is going on here!
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wait.
What?
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06/06/09
The iPhone had a 3d gpu since day 1, it just gets a better,newer one now.
Also anyone in this thread who says things in the vein of "blabla iphone will never be a serious contender in the gaming market, yadayada" should read some recent news.
Nintendo and Sony are trying to copy the iPhone with their newer devices and services, not the other way round.
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I need my phone for CALLS, so I can't be running around wasting batteries on the umpteenth tower-defense I just bought on my iXpensive cellphone.
Yes, I am well aware these are avaliable on the iPod Touch. I have games on my LG Touch (which didn't cost nearly as much) but I don't use them due to the fact that my MP3 is always playing music when I use it, and when I want to use it I prefer there's battery left instead of it having been drained by playing a fart-app.
Sorry Apple, you never could sway me with your stylish yet over-expensive wares. My MacBook may be a decent computer, but not my system of choice.
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btw
Dreamcast for the win!
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I can feel it in me bones...
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Well i realise its not confirmed yet and hopefully it won't be the iPhone only (so new iTouch with it).
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seriously.. if they released an ipod dedicated to playing games, and had it reasonably priced and didnt update it in a year... itd probably sell like crazy.
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No, please. The iPod Touch should always be an MP3 player first and foremost. It can be a secondary whatever-the-hell Apple wants after that.
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Mac doesn't do games, they do money & U.I.
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also, apple created the pippin, and bandai released the thing. it was a decent idea, but the price is mainly what killed it. that and the fact that it didnt have its own software that was console-eque. the way the gaming market is nowadays, they could just release a version of apple tv capable of producing graphics on par with 360/ps3... and then third parties could release their games on itunes right along side the other consoles.