The title is meant to be a more literal one. Am not talking about whether the games for iPhone are making an impact or not, for they are surely rocking the mobile as well as protable gaming world. But the iPhone games, shiny as they might be with great graphics, have very poor audio, better than only the Java games, which always had the dubious distinction of being the worst sounding games.
With great games coming for the N-gage with rocking music and sound effects, the iPhone games must do something if they are to stand up in front of the N-gage and other portable gaming platforms.
It is true that traditionally mobile games never did concentrate on the game’s audio, mainly because most of the gamers had the sound turned off. But the times have changed and we have reached a stage where mobile gaming platforms and mobile games are being compared to stand-alone portable gaming platforms like the DS and the PSP. In such a situation, mobile games must score high on the audio front as well. It’s not that the mobiles are lacking in hardware. The developers arent giving much attention. With N-gage games leading the way in making sure that “they are being heard” , its time that iPhone games started doing so too!
N97 is the big daddy of all mobiles. Just by its looks, it can awe any person. If you get under the hood to see what its got inside, it will cause your gamer senses to raise an alarm with the message that the N97 is a gaming beast. Coupled with the N-gage platform, Nokia has got a huge winner, atlast!
Combining a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard, the N97 goes beyond any other phone from the Finnish company. N97 is thus markedly different from other N-gage supported devices. Touchscreen is a new concept in the world of N-gage and just imagining the slew of new games that would come supporting the touchscreen features is already making me mad with excitement. Combine with that the huge screen, great ergonomics and the latest in accelerometer technology, the N97 is destined to be the ruler of the portable gaming world. The iPhone, a new entrant in the market, has become a great gaming device, mainly because of its touchscreen features. The N97, which is far better than the iPhone, will cause another revolution in mobile/portable gaming. The presence of a great QWERTY keyboard is an added bonus, a feature that the keyless iPhone can never hope to match.
Consider N-gage gaming at 97 times its current ability. That’s the N97. The true portable gaming beast has arrived!
Sorry for the rather cryptic title. What I wanted to say was that the good old classic of a game - Pac - Man is the most downloaded app for the Android. You read that right!
Pac-Man has come out ahead of various other apps like The Weather Channel in Google’s just released Android mobile platform.
This might actually give us some light into what is happening with the Android platform. Yeah, Pac-Man is a great game, I must have played it a million times, but the fact that it is at the top shows a dearth of games for the Android, currently at least.
It remains to be seen whether Android will prove to be a good gaming system and give competition to the iPhone or the N-gage. As more and more games get released, we will be able to truly assess the powers of the Android.
My money is on Android over the iPhone, though. Apple’s closed door policy might just be the cause of the iPhone’s undoing. The open nature of the Android will be supported by developers. Let’s see whether the Android turns into a dumb robot or an iPhone hunting Robocop.