Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Email

topics:

iPhone

Sony

Nintendo

DS

vote downundo vote up flag

engadget.com - 12/12/2008

Apple: "the iPhone is a gaming console"

—

According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows. During an ADC "iPhone ...

Leave a Comment

Apple stresses iPhone as a gaming console, and could pose threat to DS
GoNintendo — ... (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) apparently waxed excited about the potential for the handheld as a viable threat to the DS (and the PSP by proxy), calling the iPhone a “gaming console” and claiming that “it’s not a phone, it’s a console experience.” I think Apple desperately wants to position the iPhone as a gaming platform. It definitely plays games, but I wouldn’t call it a gaming console. I also say that the quality of games isn’t anywhere near what the DS offers. Link This entry was posted on Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 4:54 pm and is filed under ...

iPhone as gaming console: Whee! Wii! Whee!
Opposable Thumbs — ... the last few months. These talks provide a four-track overview that ranges from introductions to Objective-C and iPhone programming to advanced technical Q&A sessions. What has been notable about the sessions is that one of those tracks is entirely devoted to iPhone game development technologies. From audio, touch input, and multiplayer features to performance tuning, the game dev track offers an entire day's seminar on developing for the iPhone as a gaming console. According to Engadget , that program emphasis was echoed strongly in the actual presentations. John Geleynse, ...

Next Metal Gear Solid is for iPhone?
The Escapist : Latest News — ... , set to take place on January 5. Apple's director of technology evangelism, John Geleynse, recently told a San Jose audience that the iPhone is not in fact a phone, but a gaming console and one that posed a threat to the likes of the Nintendo DS. If Apple felt like asserting that claim, rolling out Hideo Kojima and a new Metal Gear Solid title for the iPhone at its ...

Hideo Kojima Talks Metal Gear iPhone
The Escapist : Latest News — ... Famitsu. "That's why we made it a simple touch-screen shooting game." Simple won't necessarily mean boring, however, according to the staff of MGST . "Regular game machines have directional pads and buttons that you assign functions to, but having nothing but a touch screen for control actually offers a lot of new things to try," Yasuyo Watanabe, creative producer for MGST , said. Ultimately, the goal of the product, in addition to getting a feel for a platform hailed as the future of gaming by its creators, is to get those not-so-hardcore first-timers interested in the ...