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| Info: EA wants to develop games for Apple's iPhone |
Monday, 12.02.2007 |
 According to an article at BusinessWeek Electronic Arts is planning to develop games for Apple's upcoming iPhone:
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Since Apple unveiled the iPhone in January, speculation has abounded about whether the device will feature games. On one hand, the design is a step closer to an all-in-one portable media device and it includes a robust OSX operating system capable of running elaborate games. The touch-screen interface would pose challenges, say game developers, but would also open some new doors.
Apple is mum on gaming plans for the iPhone or Apple TV, but Mitch Lasky, senior vice-president of EA Mobile, says his company is discussing plans for games on the phone. "We have been talking to Apple about games on (the iPhone)," Lasky says. "We see a lot of the technology that we've utilized on the iPod side being incorporated into the iPhone."
For five iPod titles, Apple tapped EA, which expanded its mobile gaming business through last year's purchase of independent mobile publisher JAMDAT Mobile, later rebranded as EA Mobile. In 2006, EA Mobile sales totaled $118 million and accounted for 4% of the company's total revenue.
Lasky had been chief executive of JAMDAT Mobile before the takeover. He says EA saw the iPod as an attractive gaming device for a number of reasons. "The requirement for music to cache so you hear a streaming uninterrupted song, that means there's a lot of RAM," he says. "It also has remarkably good graphics."
Access to iTunes' commercial distribution platform was also a big advantage, Lasky says.
It's not sure yet if there might come a Need for Speed for the iPhone too, but it's more likely EA develops games like Tetris, Sudoku or similar fun-games, which have a very shallow gaming experience. At the moment you can buy Need for Speed for your mobile at Vodafone Live...
 Article @ BusinessWeek
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| #1: von nfs pro gamer
(22.02.2007 16:34) |
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i will allways be in front of u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
this phone is sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it got touch screen, four or eight GBs, and the best part IT HAS A IPOD IN THE IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!! TRUST ME I AM GETTING THIS PHONE YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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