According to Sony, the iPhone isn’t built for serious games. It’s built for texting your granma and calling your girl, Marcus Rivers claims in the latest Sony ad for $9.99 PSP Favorites.
Basically, the ad shows a device very similar to the iPhone held by a guy who says that he’s got games on it. Marcus weighs in and says that it isn’t built for games, and you should get a PSP instead. Interesting to notice the three games Marcus shows off are based on 3D engines.
What’s more interesting though, is that Sony is clearly going after the iPhone user base and the people who buy apps in the App Store. That’s what the videogame industry “experts” still don’t get: people buy apps on devices that can do anything - from texting granmas to playing games and creating music.
They’re stuck in this mid-90’s concept of single-purpose devices and they can’t do anything but mocking those (like Apple and Google) who understood that a huge market nowadays is in multi-purpose devices.
Check out the video below. [via Ars]
