iPhone does not blow PSP/DS "Out of the Water"

Today Apple held an event featuring their iPhone OS 4.0. Apple nerds and fanboys flocked to Apple’s headquarters to hear all the latest, greatest, revolutionary, awesome, far better, original features included in the the update. Features include multitasking, folders, enhanced mail, iBooks, enterprise, and iAds, but none surprised me more than Game Center. Game center is a social gaming with matchmaking, achievements, leaderboards, and friend invites. We’ll call it Xbox Live for the purpose of this post.

The fine folks at gdgt.com live blogged the event and quoted Apple saying that they have over 50k gaming titles on the iPhone OS. Apple continued to say, “If you look at dedicated gaming devices like the PSP and DS, this just blows them out of the water”. But it just doesn’t. You can not compare numbers of games available to “the water”.

The quality of games on these dedicated gaming devices have one thing the iPhone doesn’t, buttons. So Apple, if you want to compare “apples” to oranges, I will do the same:

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As you can see, the iPhone does not have any buttons on it, therefore it sucks. I’m not sure how you can even call yourself a gaming platform if you do not even have the most basic form of input methods.

No one would argue that the games on PSP/DS are deeper and more fun (DSi Ware excluded). I’m not arguing the fact that this is good for the iPhone platform, it is, Apple just needs better reasons for backing it up. Quality over quantity in terms of games. I hope that the developers embrace this more than OpenFeint and Plus, and those that did convert their achievements over to the new platform.

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