Hijinks Inc.

Brian Caulfield of Forbes.com thinks that the iPhone could kill the DS. Is it a possibility? In a word. No.

Still not getting it? Let me put it this way… Hillary Clinton has a better chance of being elected president.

Monday, however, Nintendo will likely face a new and far more dangerous foe: Apple. Steve Jobs’ computer and gizmo maker will likely launch a long-promised feature, dubbed the App Store, which will let outside developers pour software into the iPhone and iPod Touch. And while it’s unlikely that, say, a mobile version of Oracle’s wonky database will make anyone stand up and cheer, we already know putting games on the iPhone is a pretty powerful combination.
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According to his little equation, Nintendo should already be in trouble. I don’t know about you but I’ve been downloading games for the iPhone ever since I purchased it. Granted Installer.app isn’t as mainstream as the App Store will be, but shouldn’t it have had at least some affect on Nintendo’s sales? Well, when you look at the numbers, Nintendo actually saw increased first quarter sales in 2008 over 2007.

Just for fun, lets take a brief look at Nintendo’s best selling game of all time, Nintendogs, with 18.67 million copies sold as of March this year, 18.67 million? Apple hasn’t even sold that figure in iPhones and iPod touch sales combined! And this is only one game!

Not being a gamer myself I can’t really comment in detail as to just how bad the control scheme on an iPhone is vs. a DS, but it’s bad. I’ll let Fred expound on that one if he wishes.

From my point of view, gaming on the iPhone is better than gaming on your average cell phone (unless you live in Japan) but it’s nothing to sell your DS or PSP over (or even your Game Boy Color).

In an interview with the guys over at Pocketgamer.biz Ignacio Cavero, CEO of Spanish firm LemonQuest hints at previously unannounced pricing information for the soon to be released line of Apple approved iPhone games.

“We’re going to see a new generation of games,” he tells PocketGamer.biz. “Instead of being sold for €5 in Europe, they’ll be closer to €10 or €12. Take a look at what Apple is preparing for iPhone. Their games will be sold in iTunes for €17-18.”

According to the latest exchange rates €17-18 is around $28 over here. If you like shopping on eBay, 28 bucks can buy you almost any current DS title, and 90% of the current PSP titles.

With a price point like that we hope to see Apple release some pretty darn good games in the upcoming weeks.

LemonQuest talks iPhone, ARM and industry consolidation

Word on the street is Apple is already hard at work on Snow Leopard, the successor to Leopard.

According to sources:

Snow Leopard is currently on track to come out during next January’s Macworld, and it will not contain major OS changes. Instead, the release is heavily focused on performance and nailing down speed and stability.

Snow Leopard will be an Intel only release.

Maybe scandal isn’t the right word, but it comes close.

TUAW is reporting not only that the supposed leaked iPhone picture shown to the left is real, but that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will not be shipping at WWDC. Okay…does this mean the firmware upgrade won’t be available right away from existing iPhone users, but that it will still be shipping on the new 3G iPhone?

If the leaked image turns out to be real, what are your thoughts?

Looks like the rumors were true! Apple announced today that they will be offering students a free iPod touch or iPod Nano with the purchase of a Mac computer (Mac Mini excluded of course).

My question is simple, why would you ever pick an iPod Nano over an iPod touch?

With the dozens of games already available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you would think that all the obvious ideas would have been taken already. I mean, we have Tetris, Pool, Chess, Snake..pretty much every cell phone staple you could think of right? Wrong. Here’s five games that no one has ported that are just begging for their time to shine. Continue reading »