Nov
20
During the 2008 Nokia Games Summit which took place in Rome, Italy, Pocket Gamer’s Stu Dredge had a chance to talk to EA Mobile’s Peter Parmenter, who shared his mixed feelings for Nokia N-Gage.
In a nutshell, Peter said EA Mobile is ready to support the platform and release its games to the N-Gage users, but Nokia doesn’t make it easy for developers to play. He went on to say: “We need to work together on the economics. I think it’s easier to get an audience with the Pope than it is to get a game through certification at Nokia.”
At the same time, the mobile game publisher said they’re making more money publishing games for the iPhone.
“As a publisher, we will make twice the revenue from selling an iPhone game in Italy than we will from selling an N-Gage game at the same price,” he added. Read the rest of this entry »
It turns out BlackBerry and Google aren’t the only one playing catch-up to the iPhone App Store - recent commentary from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a developer conference in Australia confirmed that they’re working on a similar software distribution channel. Of course, they’re not so willing to compare themselves to Apple; it sounded like they would actually be implementing something more similar to Facebook’s third-party application support.