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If you have an iPhone or, better yet, an iPhone 3G, you’re probably well aware of how powerful the iPhone is as a media, web surfing, and gaming platform. Pairing a powerful set of processors and graphics acceleration technologies with the huge multi-touch display has made for a mobile gaming platform unlike any other currently available.
So much so that John Carmack, of Quake-fame, has gone on record as saying that the iPhone is “more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined.” Carmack went on to say that the iPhone’s hardware was equivalent to a Sega Dreamcast gaming console, and comparable to the Sony PlatStation 2 or Microsoft’s Xbox. Those are huge statements, especially from the co-founder of id, the company that created one of the more hardware-intensive gaming titles out there – most of you will know Quake intimately.
The Quaker-maker says that id is currently toiling away to release 2 new iPhone games through the AppStore. One of the iPhone games will be a more conventional (read: pared down) gaming title, while the other will aim to take the iPhone to the edge of its graphical performance envelope – a goal worthy of id’s hardware-taxing software.
Still, Carmack says Apple needs to seriously consider their stance on iPhone gaming. Apple isn’t exactly always helpful to game developers, like id, looking to make “game-changing” software for the iPhone. If Apple can get a grasp on their iPhone-as-gaming-console concept, then the iPhone will certainly rise to the top of the mobile gaming-crop.
[Via: MobileCrunch]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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