Looks like Apple is really standing behind its product and letting people know just how great it really is. Not only does it play music, take photos, have applications, make phone calls and it will shred at video games as well. The iPhone is the hottest piece of technology out right now and at QuakeCon 2008, Carmack (id Software co-founder) let everyone know just how great it is and what it could spell for the handheld market.
While Carmack sees graphics memory as a potential limiting factor on the iPhone, he’s stoked about the intuitiveness of the iPhone SDK. He also described the handset’s hardware as equivalent to that of the Sega Dreamcast living room console, and almost on par with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s original Xbox.
When it comes to portable gaming systems, the iPhone is ‘more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined,’ he added. Apple’s revenue sharing deal that offers developers 70 percent of the sale price was also cited as a plus.
That is a pretty fierce claim that a small phone has the power of a console, but after playing around with my iPhone it can easily be believed. Carmack didn’t hold back and really let people know his stance on how great the Apple product is, perhaps a money hat was a flying or maybe just cheap gin, who knows?
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Write a Comment»Honestly, there are a lot of devices that have more power than the DS. Knowing apple though they have to flaunt their achievement. Here is the main thing, your phone is only as strong as the companies that back it. If you have a really powerful phone but don’t release any good games then whats the point?
Put Quake III arena (and release it) on the iphone/itouch and release a game pad. THEN say that your phone slaughters the competition in phones and handhelds.
it might be powerful but so far the games have been mediocre. puzzle games and stuff are the best gaming things on the iphone right now and will likely stay that way for a while. and as we all know, tetris on a ps3 or on an original game boy is still just tetris.
The iPhone is not a console, being able to almost be up to par with a last gen console is only good enough when your a multimedia smartphone. Of course the specs of the iPhone is better than the DS & PSP combined because they’re handheld consoles that are aiming towards gaming and a dash of multimedia. The only good games that have been on the iPhone at the most are puzzles.
He’s taking quite a stand there.