The
iPhone has already advanced the mobile phone into a new era of well designed,
effortlessly multi tasking, multi purpose devices. It can remind you to buy milk
and butter when you leave work that evening, and it can allow you to sync all your
photos, emails and music into many different places all at once. Yet with the
release of the iPhone 5, has Apple shaken up the handheld gaming market with
it’s most brilliant and advanced iPhone yet?
Just
take a look at the top downloaded Apps in the iTunes store, most of
the time, ten of them are games - because that is what we love to do with our
phones. When we have time to kill, we want to destroy some pigs for stealing
our eggs, and slash some flying fruit...when we are in a meeting, secretly bored...you get the gist. With the release of the iPhone 5 this week,
it appears that soon there may not be need for the PlayStation Vita and
Nintendo 3DS in your pocket, as Apple is slowly narrowing the already slight
gap between the ‘on the go’ gaming devices and mobile gaming.
So
why is this?
The
iPhone 5 most importantly has what we have all been eagerly hoping for, a
bigger and more impressive 4 inch screen. Plus it seems game developers are not
wasting any time to put these extra millimeters to good use. Even at just half
an inch bigger, the new iPhone 5 has opened the door for a huge difference in
mobile gaming on the iPhone, especially now the games feel less cramped and
enclosed.
Add
to this the new A6 processor chip that is fitted snugly into the iPhone 5, that
the experts at Apple claim will offer double the performance of the processor
in the 4S, and you can see clearly that the market for bigger and graphically
impressive mobile games just had it’s doors flung wide open.
Already, developers are making the most of the new resources available to them with the
iPhone 5. Games such as Infinity Blade II
and it’s hoards of new loot to unlock and monsters to battle, will provide
a baseline test for the iPhone 5’s improvements. Then you have Lili, a beautifully delivered and iPhone
5 optimised game that is just itching to be played on the new sleeker mobile
device. Lastly you have the show stopping, graphically astounding Wild Blood by Game loft, which will
easily be one of the aesthetically richest games to grace an iOS device. Not to
mention that it has already been optimised for the new iPhone 5, so what are
you waiting for?
The
iPhone 5 will certainly take mobile gaming to the next level, but for now, I
don’t think Sony or Nintendo have to be too concerned, as there are still flaws
to the many perks. I mean it only takes a pair of thumbs on screen to ruin the
tension of games such as Deadspace.
News by Lyndsay Moir
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Lyndsay Moir is a freelance writer, who has
recently graduated from University, where she read history. She loves to game,
especially on the PS1...I know...how outdated, and has been a big PC/Mac nerd,
ever since she first got her paws on one when she was young. She is a
twenty one year old with plenty of free time, a laptop and a willingness to
write for you if you'd be interested, all you have to do is get in touch at lyndsay.moir@me.com and get talking! All Articles by Lyndsay.
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