Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch become popular electronic playgrounds

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“Apple announced recently that iPhone and iPod users had downloaded an impressive one billion programs from the company’s online App Store in a mere nine months. Meanwhile, 15 of the 20 most popular paid downloads since the service opened have been games,” Seth Schiesel reports for The New York Times.

“These two facts are not unrelated. Apple hasn’t been this relevant in video games — and video games have not been so relevant to Apple — since the early 1980s, when the Apple II was a major platform for computer games,” Schiesel reports.

“What the iPhone offers that the DS and PSP lack is its huge library of downloadable games among the more than 35,000 total programs available on the App Store,” Schiesel reports. “Most of the top games on the iPhone cost (more…)

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Apple’s iPhone Emerges as Legitimate Gaming Platform

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Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:43 pm

Apple’s iPhone has sprung up as a serious video game platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to traditional handheld gaming consoles.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has sold around 30 million devices on the market — 17 million iPhones and 13 million iPod Touches — and consumers are buying and playing games by the tens of millions.

Meanwhile, game designers are diving headlong into the market, churning out offerings at a furious pace.

Some say the iPhone’s GPS, connectivity and touch screen gives it an edge over the (more…)

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Apple’s Next iPhone Will Rule at Gaming

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By Brian X. Chen EmailJanuary 29, 2009 | 4:53:09 PMCategories: Apple, iPhone 

Iphone The next upgrade to Apple’s iPhone will have a strong focus on gaming, analysts and developers agree.

That’s because the gaming market is an increasingly juicy segment of the mobile multimedia space — and it’s one that Apple’s phenomenally successful iPhone is well-positioned to dominate.

"The iPhone and iPod Touch are becoming a major new handheld gaming platform, and if you look at the App Store and look at what’s doing well, that’s reflecting," said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game. "I would look forward to improvements in the device as a gaming platform both for the phone and iPod Touch."

Apple made clear its plans to seize the gaming market in November 2008 when Apple marketing executive Greg Joswiak called the iPhone and iPod Touch "the future of gameplay," posing a serious threat to (more…)

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