Live the Game!

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!