Apple iPod Touch 3G
Posted September 18th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Review It’s official – the iPod Touch is a games machine. When the second-generation model was launched this time last year, we noted – in one of our occasional moments of penetrating insight – that Apple seemed to have been taken unawares by the flood of games that had appeared on the iPhone and the first Touch.
Apple‘s iPod Touch: PSP and DS beater?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed this recently, admitting that “originally, we didn’t know how to market the Touch”. But Apple seems to have made its mind up now, as the new Touch is very much intended to be Apple’s contender in the handheld gaming market.
And that, according to Jobs, is why Apple disappointed so many people by not including a Camera in the new model. Rather than adding new features, Jobs states that Apple‘s main priority was simply to reduce the price of the Touch in order to compete more effectively with established gaming gadgets such as the Sony PSP and Nintendo’s DS.
Both consoles have been slimmed down of late, and are no longer as clunky as they were at launch, but neither is as svelte as the Touch nor as feature filled. They’ll continue to enjoy a big fan-based, of course, and sell well – they have more, better-known games than the Touch does – but if we were in the market for a handheld games console, we’d almost certainly prefer the Touch with its more extensive range of capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
