Comments on: 'Spore Origins' and Nine Other Titles from EA Mobile

By: Urban Tycoon Hopes to Satisfy Sims Fans | Smartphone User Guide

Urban Tycoon Hopes to Satisfy Sims Fans | Smartphone User Guide — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:01:57 +0000

[...] fans of the original, EA has previously announced that SimCity will be coming to the [...]

By: phil

phil — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:59:44 +0000

anyone know when any of these games r coming. Exspecially Tiger Woods

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:07:49 +0000

@Capone

Your forget that it is much cheaper to build games for the iPhone, regarding the way the developement platfom and distribution is handled. When I can get a descent DS game for 30€, I can expect to get the same game for 10€ on the iPhone.

By: Korb

Korb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:11:14 +0000

@Dudehuge
You're probably right, that's the problem. While most PSP games are actually too expensive, the current price level on the App store is too low for real games. On the other hand distribution on the App store is cheaper than selling games for DS or PSP. So 25 - 30 $ should be about right.

By: awesome-o

awesome-o — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:03 +0000

haws I wish square enix would react to this.

A couple of solid rrpgs with decnt control system
and it would be game over

By: Capone

Capone — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:38:06 +0000

@ Dudehuge:

You nailed it. For less than ten bucks, we cannot expect PSP or DS ports, rather pimped ports of mobile versions. That's less risk for companies like gameloft or EA, too.
But we'll definitively see more than these ports in the future, games like Kroll will prove that.
And if the base of iPhone gamers will grow constantly, game developers will probably try to find out how much they can charge for the games in the AppStore. In theory, a PSP port still should be a lot cheaper, as there's no disc or boxing material when sold thru the AppStore.

By: Dudehuge

Dudehuge — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:50:57 +0000

@Korb
They won't do PSP ports as they cannot sell it for the higher end price of 9.99. Someone first has to be successful in selling an app for more than that before they delve into it.

@Easy Writer
SimCity 3000 should be ported, I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

@isoSasquatch
Single or Two-Person indies can easily create it but they're too busy making Match 3, Pong, Snake, and Hangman clones then selling them, it's the legal version of theft.

By: Easy Writer

Easy Writer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:33:29 +0000

If they basically did a straight-up port of SimCity 2000 to the iPhone I'd be happy. Because i'm with Korb -- the iPhone is definitely a portable platform, not a cell phone platform. Neutered games are BS.

By: MilesO'Toole

MilesO'Toole — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:39:49 +0000

I watched some of the footage at that linked you provided for need for speed. That's not how it's going to look on the iPhone, is it? Is that footage from a console version, or what we are actually going to see on the iPhone? If so, that's going to blow away even that asphalt game.

By: slappy

slappy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:00:13 +0000

Darn app store. I'm spending way too much money having fun with this...

By: John Bowers

John Bowers — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:06:35 +0000

I can't help but salivate over spore. I've been waiting for that for years... and years... and years (it feels like).

By: isoSasquatch

isoSasquatch — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:58:31 +0000

I'm psyched for Yahtzee Adventures, but I'm sure it'll be $9.99 like all these EA board game ports (aka too expensive for what it is). I'd rather see Fullpower release a Yahtzee clone (see: DooZee, Kismet) or even add it to MotionX Poker as a new game mode, since I doubt EA's dice physics will match MotionX's.

By: djmoya

djmoya — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:44:12 +0000

cant wait for the spore game just hope it has more features then the java version for all other cell phones

By: WhySoSerious

WhySoSerious — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:20:58 +0000

@Korb
You read my mind. Not only that....I see each of these costing 9.99 :-/ iCopter still rules on my phone.

By: Korb

Korb — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:06:31 +0000

I'm really not excited about those EA games. These iPhone games are developed by the cell phone department of Electronic Arts. EA mobile isn't the department that produces PSP games, though. I don't want cell phone ports. If you port, please port from the Playstation Portable, the iPhone is definitely capable of that kind of games since it's even more powerful than the PSP.