March 3rd, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »
Mobile phone video games will rival games on mainstream handhelds like the Sony PSP by late 2006, executives of some of the top phone game publishers say.
The cost and complexity of developing such games makes consolidation inevitable, the chief executives of private publishers Sorrent and In-Fusio and top mobile executives of Electronic Arts and the Walt Disney said in a panel discussion at the Reuters Technology Summit. Handhelds like Sony’s PSP and Nintendo’s DS currently far outstrip cell phones in terms of graphics capability and processing power. But before long, those executives said, phones will be equal to the challenge. More …