Keep dreaming. A game console's revenue stream comes from licensing games. You give a SDK away, you aren't doing much to encourage developers to seek licences and give a company money. Sure, you cover a fair chunk of hardware costs when you buy a console, but the company usually looses a lot of money on each hardware unit sold. It's why the 360 is so cheap, MS make back that cost from licensing games on the console. (The exception being the Wii, which has made Nintendo a sea of green for them to swim in, they make raw profit off every console sold.)
The iPhone/iPod Touch wasn't created to make money off software licences, it was made to cover it's cost at purchase, not to mention the money they're getting away from AT&T, O2 and the others who hold iPhone service exclusivity around the world... It's viable for them to make their platform more attractive by opening up the platform to developers.
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Maurik @ Apr 5th 2008 4:53PM
No freaking way! SWEEET!! Sony HAS to release an official SDK for the PSP now. I can't believe Q3A is on the itouch before PSP. Ridiculous.
ssuk @ Apr 5th 2008 6:44PM
Keep dreaming. A game console's revenue stream comes from licensing games. You give a SDK away, you aren't doing much to encourage developers to seek licences and give a company money. Sure, you cover a fair chunk of hardware costs when you buy a console, but the company usually looses a lot of money on each hardware unit sold. It's why the 360 is so cheap, MS make back that cost from licensing games on the console. (The exception being the Wii, which has made Nintendo a sea of green for them to swim in, they make raw profit off every console sold.)
The iPhone/iPod Touch wasn't created to make money off software licences, it was made to cover it's cost at purchase, not to mention the money they're getting away from AT&T, O2 and the others who hold iPhone service exclusivity around the world... It's viable for them to make their platform more attractive by opening up the platform to developers.
m1k3 @ Jun 28th 2008 12:03PM
umm maurik quake 3 hit the dell axim x50v and other pocket pcs before the psp and the ipod touch and that was in 2005
proof: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/11/11/q3ce_powervr/