Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Trip dissing others' approach to mobile games
"Most of the companies making games for mobile phones have got it wrong, says Trip Hawkins, founder of games behemoth Electronic Arts."
Trip's point is another of default thinking, we're trying to make games on the cellphone do something that other gaming platforms are doing. So in the end we have a "gimpy Gameboy" (I like that quote) or an underpowered e-mail client. He's right. Mobile games need to be based around the core differentiators of a phone - so voice and messaging. And no, phone tag is not a game that people will pay for ...
Trip's point is another of default thinking, we're trying to make games on the cellphone do something that other gaming platforms are doing. So in the end we have a "gimpy Gameboy" (I like that quote) or an underpowered e-mail client. He's right. Mobile games need to be based around the core differentiators of a phone - so voice and messaging. And no, phone tag is not a game that people will pay for ...
