The Red Comet

Jawajoey

solacecomes

I don't own an iPhone but I was expecting maybe put my hands on the next generation... 3G and all.

But you know, several stuff like DS, Wii and other consoles have gimmicks that promised the same thing... they have something new with great potential for developers to create amazing different things, but most of them failed to deliver... at least to some degree.

Still yeah, that car game looks really nice...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@karmaghost: Yeah, those ABC keyboards drive me absolutely crazy. And since the iPhone has a built-in standard on-screen keyboard, there's really no excuse for creating a broken in-game keyboard.

L_K_M

For comparison, PS3 is at 12 mio, 360 at 19 mio and Wii at 25 mio. The DS has sold a whopping 71 mio, and the PSP 34.

L_K_M

L_K_M

orrin

But yeah, iPhone. It has great potential for games where you either use the accelerometer or touching to manage one simple task at a time. Like steering in a racing game, or poking something. You just have to realise the interaction limitations and design the game for the device and there should be no problems.

@emuc64: From the looks of it the required tilt is really small, shouldn't be problem at all.

ara

here is a review:
[www.pocketgamer.co.uk]

Orka Borka

2.) If you must use tilting as a control method when a screen is connected to the controller, the image should stay stable, i.e. parallel (or perpendicular, depending on your point of reference) to the ground. It shouldn't move with the screen.

karmaghost

THE CLUE TRAIN'S COMING, KOTAKU. Maybe you should hop on board.

BTS.WRKNG

labrats5

That's like saying someone has double standards for not liking a red shirt but liking a red dress.

The motion controls requiring that plastic wheel plugged into the already familiar Mario Kart franchise is completely different than this.

karasu is my homeboy

wildmatt

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

NeoAkira

hmmm, and i could do this while driving around the city too...

:D

vx2

This game would have been much easier to control in landscape mode, but still would serve as a tech demo (on how horrible the iPhone controls are).

Now imagine a Burnout game on the iPhone - you'll be throwing the phone like a frisbee around :D.

The graphics above are PS1 class, btw.

somarix

wtf007

You speak truths. I'm in total agreement with you in regards to consolidating the amount of electronics I lug around with me daily.

Honestly though, I'm still reluctant to embrace mobile phone gaming as a viable platform. Right now at least. There seems to be too many technical hurdles that need to be overcome.

It's obviously in it's infancy, and could use all the support it can get to foster growth and innovation, but I just can't see myself contributing to a medium that I have no interest in.

I believe once phone makers take into consideration gaming as a necessary feature when designing phones we'll see more and more positive news regarding mobile gaming. (The N-Gage is an exception, a horrible, horrible exception. Taco's anyone?)

Digital-Moth

greeble

lynxij

Pretty sure that the iPhone has a dedicated graphics chip inside of it to handle the animations of Coverflow and stuff. I'm happy that OpenGL's being used for the game development though, it's an underrated platform that doesn't get much love.

Cake_Eater

I played this for a while and i think its pretty good. Controls work good, however like karasu said...wish it was landscape. But it's just a demo so im not going to bitch.

Cuban__B

But yeah, those graphics are pretty impressive by handheld standards. Not so into motion control, but it seems to work just fine.

Can anyone tell me if the iPhone has a graphics chip or if this is all rendered without one?

karasu is my homeboy

SAKY

To the defense of current cell phone games,my $50 cell has 3D Bowling with polygons and everything! Just a step above 8-bit gaming. Besides that, whats wrong with 8-bit gaming? :)

SAKY

I held it like you would hold the original GB and just slightly tilted for turns. Lean forward for speed.

It is really a good attempt. I look forward to having it more fleshed out.

Gooche

End fanboy rant. I'm sorry

Ryan_Long

sorry caps.

I WANT!

glowpasa

Then again, they could've just made the car smaller and zoomed back a bit so yeah, landscape would've been better.

I still say Apple and Sony should hook up and just take out both Nintendo and MS. Imagine an Apple powered PS4 and PSP2 that combines the best of the iPhone and the PSP.

I can dream.

incredibilistic

This also looks like an awesome way to drop your iPhone. The accelerometer use in a handheld game is cool, but it would work best with slow, fluid movements. Needing to turn on a dime is likely to cause countless iPhones to fly out of people's hands.

The real feature that needs to be perfected for iPhone games is its ability to recognize multiple contact points simultaneously. If Apple is smart (and I'm told they are), they need to make sure to offer tons of games which use this feature. You can be damn sure Nintendo will utilize multiple touch-point recognition in the next version of the DS.

Instant_Awesome

Media Convergence is a fantastic thing. I understand where you are coming from however, a master of 1 trade is always beter than a jack of all. But what if we could have a master of all trades? What if we could have a phone that can do what phones do now (Call, Camera) and yet, also play games really well?

Don't you want to have one less device that you have to chug around? It'd be great if we could, and opportunities like this, though mediocre at best, is just another hurdle for future iterations to improve on.

Then maybe, just maybe Mobile Phone Gaming can be a serious platform to rival (or even replace?) handheld gaming.

Zero_

For me, If I want to play games, I'll buy a handheld; if I want to talk on the phone, I'll buy a phone.

This is obviously archaic thinking, with gadgets now boasting a multitude of new features that were generally not associated with the product in the past. So I'm definitely in the minority here. But, I would rather just have a gadget perform one function incredibly well, than have it attempt to perform 10 different ones subpar.

I guess my view on cell-phone gaming is: do we really want to play games on a system that is ill-equipped to accommodate them?

Digital-Moth

Beatboxtaun

Not to be a total pessimist, I must say that in certain applications (that marble game) the control works well.

emuc64

geo1378

Find some way of fixing it to your head so as you look around the screen moves accordingly, tie it in to a dedicated bluetooth controller and you could have a kickass FPS game :)

topscore1632

Still, the damn thing is $400. Yeah you get all the other great functionality plus games consolidated into one product but I have no interest in such an item. That is just my opinion. Now, if you give me a must have game title maybe I'd trade up phones.

Software will make this idea take off so I guess we will wait and see what happens.

SAKY

Cactuar

Hervard

Which is a valid concern for a handheld.

TheWP

Then I will be happy.

will

The new one coming out is 3.5G though. & thinner/lighter. I'll def grab one of those. I just hope it can still be unlocked, because I really don't want AT&T.

string_theory