Apple Disses DS and PSP at iPod Event
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Not up to the IPhone? Laff.
As if, it has absolutely fuck all games that match up to either competitor. Go get some half decent titles THEN talk smack. Until then piss off and work on something over than flaunting an overpriced gimmick.
As if, it has absolutely fuck all games that match up to either competitor. Go get some half decent titles THEN talk smack. Until then piss off and work on something over than flaunting an overpriced gimmick.
I love it when LOLMac gamers who 'hate' Microsoft still believe they're truly using a Mac whilst running bootcamp and not an overpriced PC with an extra chip or two.
No, because this is not about anything else then money.Commander Breetai said:
It isn't like Factor 5 went out and said: L.A.I.R will suck. They said that it would kick ass, but it ended up sucking.
This is the same, and it's called promoting your product and it's a quite good thing to do if you want to sell anything.
But to actually contribute to the discussion... What the hell Apple? Yes you want money but my god, you can't just say stuff like that with no solid reasoning. Hell I'm pretty good at writing but I don't go around proclaiming I'm better than Stephen King ¬¬
I hate gaming on my Touch, the only good game is Labyrinth. I by far prefer my PSP and DS. Nevermind, Apple have always been big headed.
Promoting your product is fine, but if you pull bullshit in your promotions you can expect to be called out on them, whether it's emphasising that the iPhone has 21,000+Shycte said:
Pretty much what I was gonna say. The iPhone itself is way too expensive, and the library of games they're talking about are mostly flash games, and people could just play almost the same thing on miniclip.com or something. I'd rather buy a game like Advance Wars... I still have yet to finish that game to my unreasonably high standards. And I got it with my DS, back when it first came out.AceDiamond said:
Opinions need to be based on something. You need to say why you believe the PSP sucks monkey balls. Apple outlined two major arguments. First:Shycte said:
Gimmick, debatable, unnecessary gimmick, unnecessary gimmick in that order. Anyone can tell you how awkward the multi-touch UI is for the iPhone as a gaming tool. Games being expensive, again, debatable. In respect to the glorified flash games? Yes, quite so. But I saw a copy of Elite Beat Agents for a fiver in my GAME store recently. Expensive indeed.
App store? What do I want apps for? I want to game. That's why I bought a gaming console. Same for the iPod. And - last I checked - doesn't the PSP have a music player on it?
Second argument:
But gamers don't care about quantity. We want quality. We want the Crisis Core's, the Phoenix Wright's, the Professor Layton's, the Final Fantasy Tactics' games. Not Johnny-come-indie-developer #4738768123 making his twentieth bejewelled clone.
Not to say all iPhone games are terrible, just that in terms of quality gaming experience, almost universal consensus is that the iPhone - by the criterium Apple themselves put forth - is not as good a gaming device as the PSP or the DS.
It's semi-clever marketing, but most gamers should note that only one of the points Apple made is actually relevant to the quality of the gaming experience, that being the multi-touch user interface which the PSP lacks. DS lacks it too, though they do have the touch screen of course.
Which is all well and good, but it's a terrible gaming interface. Annoying to use, impossible to make for advanced gaming controls. Imagine, for a moment, trying to play Grand Theft Auto on your iPhone, just as you played GTA: Liberty City Stories on your PSP. You see?
TL;DR - Apple's 'disses' may have been opinion, but the facts they used to back them up are faulty at best and outright irrelevant at worst.
