Surprise, or not a surprise, Apple has stepped to Sony and Nintendo. One Apple Director of Technology Evangelism, John Geleynse, had made one bold statement that may blow the Handheld race open to Apple.
"It's not a phone, it's a console experience,"
Geleynse said this at an iPhone developers meeting, asking them to think of it as, well, a console. Which makes you think, isn't the iPhone a handheld already? Let me state 3 minor facts about the iPhone.
*It can connect to Wifi and 3G Networks
*It has a touchscreen and an accelerometer
*Starts at $199.99
From these vague facts, it almost sounds like the Nintendo
DS. The iPhone has had many side-by-side game releases, such as Need For Speed: Undercover, as well as some older games, such as Crash Bandicoot. Comparing the graphics, they aren't any worse than the PSP or
DS graphics at all. The iPod could take, and even theoretically "kill" the
DS. While Nintendo sold about 1,500,000
DS's just last month, last summer Apple sold a whopping
7 Million iPhones.
But, as many of you might not know, Apple HAS tried making a console before. It was called the
Pippin, and was a console/computer. It cost 600 bucks, and failed horribly, only selling 42,000 units. Also, as you might know, the last phone/console that was attempted, the
N-Gage, also met it's demise after a year or so.
Although the iPhone has everything going for it, history is going against it.
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