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November 15, 2004
Rumor: iPod Games
Rumors have surfaced about a company named Digital River striking a deal to provide technological assistance to Apple for downloading games to the iPod. The rumor states that this service that Apple will control will be available on the "next version" of the iPod.
Whatever this next version of the iPod might be, and when it may come out is not known. However, I see this as a possibility: all models of the next version of the iPod have color screens. The games might be sold either by iTunes or by using an iTunes-like application and business model, meaning that a small fee would be charged for each game. These games might be small in file size, not very graphics intensive, and similar to the already present solitaire or the simple games found on cell phones. Apple can make money by licensing the iPod API to developers. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through for something like that though.
Posted on November 15, 2004 05:17 PM | Category: News
Comments
Sounds Great
Posted by: Yoyo on July 6, 2005 12:20 PM
Yeah I hope they make some better games for the ipod, I’d love to see snake or some licenced games like bomberman
Posted by: Bomberman987667 on July 6, 2005 12:22 PM
I have an iPod and yeah they could make snake for the iPod also but I’d like to see Billards and Chess be apart in the games menu also.
Posted by: Aznpinoy19 on August 17, 2005 06:02 PM
Does anyone know anything about the news thats on www.ipodgames.com ? Theres an article on there to say that there will be a 30MB game out soon. Sounds BIG!
Posted by: Jed Edwards on October 15, 2005 07:07 AM
An iPod gaming API would be intensely interesting. I’m amazed they haven’t done it yet, unless they’ve waiting until the video iPod (sensible enough).
As a mobile (phone) games developer, we have to design games with a filesize under 64k, with 200k of runtime memory - and they sell for an average of $5 a pop. Good games sell well - right now, they don’t sell well enough because mobile phone operators just haven’t got decent delivery systems and too many mobile users don’t know how to connect to download, or even that there are downloads available.
iTunes is something else - it’s a real gateway. You think 1 million vids in a month is good? Multiply that by 10 for games I reckon…And I’ll sign up without hesitation.
Posted by: scoop on October 31, 2005 12:40 PM
lololol…this was posted exactly 1 year ago
Posted by: david on November 15, 2005 10:04 PM
I Found some decent free ipod games! It’s not an arcade style game but it’s really funny to play if you like Rock & Pop music.
Go to www.coolgorilla.com
Don’t expect too much but it’s well worth downloading.
Posted by: Pete Tong on December 30, 2005 12:05 PM
how can I get free games on my ipod nano? can you give me a site?? thank you
moustache260@hotmail.com :)
Posted by: Miss good nano on January 10, 2006 07:49 AM
at ipod arcade.com they have gta san andreas
Posted by: ahero4heor on July 16, 2006 01:37 PM
