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iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

hbcobra — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:25:50 EDT

Big question: if you own both the PC or Mac version and the iPhone version of Spore, can you play the same game on either platform? It would be awesome to play a while on my computer and then play the same saved game on-the-go on my iPhone.

hbcobra

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

ki.designs — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:29:18 EST

@iamjames: you are an idiot ... seriously ...

ki.designs

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

berribrand — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:31:02 EST

@diehippiedie: You can't be serious. This is not a DS/PSP killer. Not even close. I personally do not like my handheld gaming systems to look like you spent an hour jacking it off with K-Y (like most iPhones look). Plus, I am not sure how Super Monkey Balls would compete with Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core.

berribrand

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Camperton — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:16:24 EST

But does it play Doo.. Oh never mind.

Camperton

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

stopcrazypp — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:41:10 EST

@strangepork:
Yeah too god damn expensive right now and it's still locked with AT&T. Maybe on the ipod touch it will be a better competitor. Even with multitouch, doesn't seem like it will be that good of a competitor in terms of games. So far games still basically suck on phones.

stopcrazypp

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

strangepork — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:03:02 EST

Ah, sure...this is a "DS Killer"? A "PSP Killer"? At that price point? And with exactly one hardware button? Think again, son.

I'm sure that there will be some good mobile/PDA games coming down the pike for the iPhone, but if you're thinking of throwing away your portable console for this, why not sell it to me for, say, £20 instead?

strangepork

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

cousinsal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:35:59 EST

I highly doubt this will be a DS killer. In addition to things like user-base and developer support, this lacks the accuracy of the DS with stylus. Also not sure if they have a network gameplay setup in mind that would be as widely used as the Nintendo WiFi. Also, while it is a nice step for mobile phone games, it looks like it's much more similar to the stripped down version that all mobile phones are getting than the actual Spore game. You get to play as the cell-phase but never go into the creature or world phases.

cousinsal

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

iamjames — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:59:11 EST

This might be a DS killer, since they're both touchscreens and the DS isn't very powerful to begin with, but PSP? I think that's a bit of a stretch.

DS is in trouble though. It only has a 67 MHz ARM9 and a 33 MHz ARM7, while the iPhone has a 620mhz processor. It could very easily simulate DS-type graphics.

The PSP has a 333mhz main processor and a 166 MHz graphics chip with 2 MiB embedded memory. Now I know 166mhz doesn't sound like a lot but remember it wasn't long ago when PC GPUs were only 166mhz, and a dedicated graphics chip helps *alot*. That little 166mhz chip does hardware polygon and NURBS rendering, hardware directional lighting, clipping, environment projection and texture mapping, texture compression and tessellation, fogging, alpha blending, depth and stencil tests, vertex blending for morphing effects, and dithering, all in 16 or 24 bit color. *whew!*
[en.wikipedia.org]

The iPhone, on the other hand, has only one processor:
[www.engadget.com]

and although it has a "vector floating point coprocessor ("for embedded 3D-graphics")", so does the SNES:
[en.wikipedia.org]

and we all remember how wonderful 3D graphics looked on the SNES.

So before we all start shouting "iPhone = PSP killer?" I think we should wait and see.

iamjames

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

RedBeard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:23:40 EST

fuck...i've been waiting for spore for like 2+ years now and here they're going to put it on the Iphone (something i swore i'd never get!) please god would another company come out with a competative product by september!

RedBeard

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

ionerox — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:06:53 EST

AAAH! How on earth will I be able to decide which gaming device to use now? Spore on the Wii, my DS Lite, my iMac, the XP machine, *and* my iPhone? Will there be a multi-platform bulk discount?

I miss the good ol' days only having two real choices for gaming- the arcade or the Atari. I'm going to have to quit my job so all the gaming devices in the house get equally loved.

ionerox

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

diehippiedie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:57:23 EST

PSP gotta watch out now, I'd be really really sad and depressed if the SONY PSP got F-ed in the A by iPhone games...

diehippiedie

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

shawnsat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:45:38 EST

The iphone accelerometer is 3 axis, meaning it "feels" movements in 3 dimensions.

shawnsat

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

krisve — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:38:31 EST

@yifkong there already is alot of homebrew games using the accelerometer as the primary control, it can certainly do much more than know the difference between landscape and portrait, but of course it is still not dead precise..

krisve

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

MikeSWelch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:27:19 EST

@Yifkong: Its actually pretty sensitive. I played that labyrinth game when my phone was jailbroke and it was pretty intense.

MikeSWelch

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Knirfie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:23:42 EST

Spore? Is that ever getting released? :')

Knirfie

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Yifkong — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:44 EST

Just how sensitive is the accelerometer? I initially thought it could only discern betwixt landscape and portrait...but is it in fact more like those found in their notebooks?

Yifkong

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

thechansen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:18:56 EST

I demand videos.

thechansen

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

NotMe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:00:01 EST

Just wait until the Meizu SDK hits the internets...iPhone killer!

Not.

NotMe

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

whoozzat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:58:00 EST

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iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

cdawson2000 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:53:32 EST

Apple will have one of the best mobile gaming platforms on the plantet!

cdawson2000

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

cobbe1 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:24:49 EST

@Kaiser-Machead: @Kaiser-Machead:

How about using your Touch or iPhone like the Wii Mote to play those games on your laptop of desktop Mac?!?!

cobbe1

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

chucklebuck — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:22:11 EST

If I got a phone call while going around a tight downhill turn in Monkey Ball, I am 98% certain I would freak out and drop my phone.

chucklebuck

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

djeror — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:15:31 EST

This is huge! There is going to be a 3-way battle for your portable gaming allegiance between Nintendo, Sony and Apple.

djeror

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

cylonite — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:09:29 EST

@qbrad: iphone gaming make more sense. they are trying to move 10 million units in the first year itself. I dont think that desktop numbers will reach that level.

cylonite

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Juggrnott — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:08:46 EST

WOw I wonder if this will work on the itouch. who cares about the iphone *sniff *sniff* darn Cect p168. i knew i shoulda waited

Juggrnott

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

awesomerobot — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:59:24 EST

@Sam_Zebian:

These games are way out of cell phone/zune games - the iphone/touch are pretty powerful little computers, more accurate to compare it to a DS than anything.

awesomerobot

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

FThorn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:44:51 EST

I want games with GUNS!

FThorn

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

pcdsim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:36:00 EST

When will these be available?

pcdsim

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Sam_Zebian — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:31:29 EST

I wonder how these will compare to other cell phone games... or Zune games?

Sam_Zebian

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Lupison — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:31:17 EST

Can you transport you games back and forth though. I mean Spore of course. I wanna play it at work, but when I get home I wanna play it on my big monitor.

Lupison

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

male roof blower (CFB) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:19:44 EST

@Kaiser-Machead: But the Air is light enough to do it.

male roof blower (CFB)

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

phoomp — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:03:53 EST

@qbrad:
Exactly. I've seen demos for Spore on almost every platform, now including the iPhone. However, given how long they've been promising Spore, I've come to believe that it has as much chance of seeing the light of day as Duke Nukem Forever.

phoomp

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

ParJoe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:48 EST

Damnit...I may have to get an iPhone.

ParJoe

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

altus — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:35 EST

I bet that you will see a lot of innovation from independent developers!

altus

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Kaiser-Machead — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:31 EST

@Falconfire: Hopefully this will bring in chipmakers to produce beefier EFI-compliant graphics cards for the Mac Pro and iMac. I'm not sure how well the MBP would handle bigger graphics in that form factor though.

Kaiser-Machead

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Falconfire — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:59:28 EST

@qbrad: Actually EA and Apple have always had a decent relationship thats grown better since the switch to intel chips. Its the OTHER developers who need to clime onboard.

Falconfire

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

qbrad — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:56:57 EST

@phoomp: Only in your dreams, man.

qbrad

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

qbrad — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:56:30 EST

I always knew that Apple would get into computer gaming at some point. Too bad their desktops don't run these apps.

qbrad

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Kaiser-Machead — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:55 EST

@ceilingFANBOY: now with 100% more fanboy: I don't think you'd want to have to tilt your macbook to play this stuff :P

Kaiser-Machead

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Buzzed — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:47 EST

Awsome

Buzzed

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

phoomp — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:20 EST

Spore, huh? Maybe we'll get Duke Nukem Forever, as well.

phoomp

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

Joseph — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:15 EST

Is this confirmed... the other post said it wasn't 100%.

Joseph

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

theweerdough — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:52:27 EST

This is what was holding spore up?

theweerdough

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

male roof blower (CFB) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:51:40 EST

In three weeks there will already be more games for the iPhone than for Mac. :-/

male roof blower (CFB)

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

zincrox — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:34 EST

and dont forget accelerometer steering!

zincrox

iPhone Getting Multitouch Games, Including Spore, Super Monkey Ball

zincrox — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:00 EST

i wanna go

zincrox