iPhone and iPad are Not the Future of Gaming

You are entitled to your opinion. But then so is anyone.

The thing is despite having a 360, a Wii and a PS3, and access for free to most games released, I play far more often and for longer on my iPhone than any of the aforementioned. And more still on my iPad, on which I am typing this btw.

Just because the iPhone is an awesome phone does not make it a bad gaming device. In the same way that just because the PSP is a mediocre games machine that does not make it an adequate media player (which the iPhone and iPad just happen to be).

iPhone/Pad the future of gaming? Probably not, but what Apple actually said was that they are the best-selling mobile gaming devices. And they are!

I agree with this article 100%. No buttons and finger drift is the biggy for action games. Although you forgot the other limiting factor, if you do want to use your 'future of gaming' for anything faster paced than doodle jump you'll run your battery flat in 45mins then its both the worst games consoleand phone, this goes for Android too

I agree with this article. The truth is Iphone do have quite rather a significant share of the mobile communication market and it's rather simple to extrapolate that data into saying that Iphone have a large share in gaming since any Iphone can be used for gaming. However, making that statement isn't really telling the picture because right now, on Earth, that third planet from the sun, Nokia has the biggest sharemarket for telephone and on almost every one of its phone, it has a game. So, claiming the 'best-selling mobile gaming devices' are, at best, is just a marketing spiel by any phone manufacturer. That said, there are markets for specialist products just like there are markets for generalist product. So, as far as I'm concern, as long as I have to tilt the screen to play racing games, it's not really a mobile gaming device; it's a mobile communication device that can play simple games.

Nokia?? Really? I'd like a dose of what you are smoking. Is this message from 1990?

Agreed, iPhone isn't the rosy future of gaming, but its a big step for Apple to even accomodate games, which was previously never been an area Apple have wanted to push into much. Love them or hate them, their impact on the games industry, and as specially the way games are developed, has become an industry benefit.

With in 3 years the TPADS and Phones , will out sale XBOX , PS3 , and WII combined . The casual player have Replaced gamers to the point all games are now dumbed down for Tards with out Thumbs ! This will make porting to a Tpad or Phone real natural . I was the #1 PLAYER ON XBL . Now my Mom ( She's 80 ) with MartyrDUM turned on is as good or Better than ME !! Good luck Competitive Gaming ( cause it's DEAD ) ! It's all about Mobility and ease of Achievements for 9year olds with the attention span of a FART !

@Joji Nokia are in fact way bigger in the mobile phone market that Apple; they have been making mobile devices for years and years. Outside of America, a massive percentage of all mobile phones owned are made by Nokia.

The fact that Apple like to concentrate on USA markets and don't really have much percentage ouside of the US is something that almost everyone forgets. All that's being said here is: Apple make a phone and an MP3 player that also happen to play games - this by definition means that any Nokia phone phone that also plays games (any Symbian device) therefore falls into this category... If you are going to classify ANY phone that can play as game as a gaming device, then the iPhone is NOT the best selling mobile gaming device... You don't have to be 'smoking' anything, you just have to know what you are talking about.