This shouldn’t come as a big surprise to our regular readers, but it’s still nice to know that Apple is being consistent about pushing the iPhone and iPod Touch as a viable gaming platform.
Engadget reports on comments made by Apple’s Director of Technology Evangelism John Geleynse who described the iPhone as a viable threat to the Nintendo DS.
Geleynse apparently waxed excited about the potential for the handheld as a viable threat to the DS (and the PSP by proxy), calling the iPhone a “gaming console" and claiming that “it’s not a phone, it’s a console experience."
Apple has clearly been pushing the iPod Touch as a gaming device with the television and web advertisements demonstrating a wide variety of games for the platform.
Word-Fu looks promising
This looks like it was a lot of fun.
I'm thinking of flying myself down to Macworld next year (hopefully with cheaper tickets) to be the youngest developer there :)
WOAAH! All the dev in one place!
Something, good ought to come out from this!
haha..cross fingers ..real FPS ..real FPS..
WTF ARE THEY WEARING? Omg like one bunch of nerd meeting.. You would think if they make some money they will dress at least some decent clothes..
I was there - and, I'm sad to say, I didn't have a good time at all. Besides being crowded and noisy one couldn't hear the presenters. The audio was muffled, but it wouldn't have mattered because about 90% of the crowd was jabbering away during the different presentations, anyway. Very few people were focused on the screen.
Speaking of the screen where the demos were being shown; the projector they were using was pretty horrible. There was a pink cast across the whole screen further diminishing the quality of the presentation. I won't even go into sharpness issues.
The crowd seemed pretty clannish, also - with people seemingly talking to just the people they came with (or work with). I tried, to strike up conversations with different people, but it wasn't that easy...and the overall noise level didn't help either.
In any case, the concept for this party is great. I just hope they do it a little more professionally next time. Better venue, better projector, better mics and a set-up that will encourage people to shut-up, watch and listen when a developer is talking about the app they spent countless hours on. They deserve that much respect.
Anyway, that's just my experience. I'm hoping next year will be much more improved. The concept is great, at least.
man these guys are cool, they must shop at abercrombie and express for men
who care what ther wearing....there developer's
it's not like there going to be on tmz hounded by photogs
they look just like developers (normal people) what did you expect them to look like?
"which visually resembles Motion-X"
WOOOO Blake, for using my art as a reference to describe something else.
remind me to send you flowers or something
It's good to see people who created tapdefence ;)