Ex-EA Studio Head Praises iPhone's Gaming Prowess

This guy is clearly an idiot. The iPhone is a fad people. You can tell it by the amazing sales in the first few months, and then people dropping off like flies. Everyone I talk to likes a few things about their iPhone, but hate alot of it. The people that don't want to say they hate, have a hard time justifying it. It's not REALLY good at any one thing. It's not a great phone, it's not a great iPod, it's not a great gaming machine, etc. It has the best mobile browser by far, but being tied to such a shitty network pretty much negates the only thing it had going for it. If it wasn't for the iPod hype of recent years, which also happens to tie to the plethora of accessories, it would be just another underpowered battery sucker.

Think about it. You let LG or Samsung or HTC come out with a mobile media/phone device that couldn't multi task, didn't support stereo bluetooth (until last week), dropped calls (unless you put it in Edge only mode), had slow internet browsing, couldn't tether as a modem, couldn't keep Exchange AND a separate phone address book, couldn't copy/paste, got 4 hours of battery, didn't support flash, had no qwerty or full horizontal keyboard, was laggy, had to be reset once a day, couldn't replace the battery, etc etc etc, and then have them tell you it cost $600+ and the data plans are forced on you for $40+ per month........yeah, anyone other than Apple would have been strung up.

Blame Steve Jobs and his reality distortion field. If WE do it, it's GOLDEN. If we DON'T do it, it's still golden. My 5 year old HTC TyTN has more features and is a damn good phone to boot. Cause let's face it...these things should be good phones first.....everything else is second.

The countdown to tears ended in disapointment :_(

Since purchasing my iPhone, my DS playtime has decreased 100%. I'm not arguing one is better than the other, but the fact that my iPhone is always charged and where I am sure does make it easy to play casually which was the role my DS once filled.

iPhone sucks for gaming. It's kind of hard to play a game where you need to move the screen or have your finger over the play area.

I rather have it turn into a decent smart phone as being able to play funky 3D games on it.

We got 10 of those for testing purposes in our company, one week later only 2 are still in use, rest switched back to their BlackBerry, Nokia or HTC. The iPhone is a nice telephone, but there the story ends and as of right now, I'd also label it a nice handheld console, as this is the only thing where it wins over the competition.

As said, I'd rather have a competent smart phone from Apple as a gaming console. So far they didn't impress me.

I had a good laugh reading this marketing bullshit.

"phone cum miracle"...

While the iPhone has the potential to offer some really cool games as it really is quite powerful, the battery life in those 3D games gets reduced to minutes. So it basically is a home gaming console and neat phone that needs to be recharged every night.

Gaming on the iphone really surprised me, while the games aren't as good as what can be found on PC and consoles they're extremely cheap and in many cases free. I actually spend quite a bit more time gaming on the iphone than I do on console and pc combined. By far.

The iphone/ipod has started a quiet revolution and it'll probably turn out to be bigger than the gameboy.

Because such things as real controls make no difference, right?

You got have fun controlling a game you cant see because your fingers are in the way, or you are busy flipping and tilting the stupid thing in an attempt to be innovative. If you like that shaky-cam way of playing games, maybe Michael Bay should start iPhone development.