iPhone Scores it Big with Gamers
The Apple iPhone 3G scores big in its first week. According to Apple, they sold over 1 million of the new 3Gs worldwide in over 21 countries. That’s impressive. Man, I need to get an iPhone. In the same week, both old and new owners of the iPhones downloaded an impressive 10 million apps from the new Apple Store on iTunes. Many people were reporting problems with the downloads… yeah… 10 million were being downloaded!!! Now, what’s really cool are the the amount of downloads for the games on iPhone. Seven of the top 10 paid apps included the following games at $9.99 a pop: The Band, Cro-Mag Rally, Super Monkey Ball and Tetris. The Electronic Arts Scrabble game came in 12th and is also scheduled to show up on FACEBOOK very soon.
Gaming is becoming more and more portable. Pretty soon we could see a portable Xbox360, PS3 or Wii game. I’m sure the geniuses at the big game companies are looking very closely at these portable games. Wouldn’t that be cool?
- Doug Kale
