11/26/2010
Mobile gaming, not to be confused with portable gaming. Mobile gaming is any act of gaming that using a cell phone or its derivative. It’s different than portable gaming, that is the console usually a full gaming machine like PSP, DS, etc. Mobile phones that designed to be a game console usually have a full-functioned telephony features and near-computerized things, as they’re usually using an open OS (installable with 3rd Party Applications). However, experts in 2008 predicted that mobile gaming will reach its highest point at 2011, as people will spend most of their money to it. But most of them still think that the Java Games will do, but now, they’re wrong. Java Games is somehow fading away, but still exist on entry-level-phones until middle-end-phones.
This time, I wanna explain about the platform that is exist on the mobile gaming, as somehow this is so hot now. These are the contenders:
N-Gage by Nokia
The N-Gage 1st Generation and the N-Gage 2nd Generation
N-Gage is the first mobile dedicated gaming platform. Nokia decided to make it as it saw that people are carrying their GameBoy Advance alongside with their phone together. So, Nokia create this. Despite its critics on the phone design, N-Gage showed huge success. However, somehow in 2005, N-Gage development was disappeared, and later confirmed that Nokia is developing for the next N-Gage. The popularity of N-Gage is so huge that when the next N-Gage is developed, a fan-concept spawned, the N-Gage Neo, as you know it already. But, that was wrong, Nokia is porting the platform into various Symbian S60 3rd Gen phones.
Then, the second generation of N-Gage was released. This one have a huge success too, although not as great as the first. N-Gage is now a gaming platform rather than a game console. Now you have the dashboard, and your N-Gage account in N-Gage Arena. But, Nokia was already stopped support and new games of N-Gage 2.0 in October 2010 although the site is still exist and Ovi Games is still points to N-Gage site. It’s also unknown whether Nokia already make another confirmation. I don’t know.
The Apple Game Center by Apple
Apple Game Center for the iOS
Actually, this is socialize the all iOS games, as the iOS games is exist earlier and always great. All games are collected here. The Apple Game Center for iOS was introduced in iOS 4 and in the iPhone 4.
XBOX LIVE for Windows Phone by Microsoft
The XBOX LIVE for Windows Phone. It shows you dashboards, just like the others.
Microsoft reveals XBOX LIVE to goes mobile together with Windows Phone 7. I don’t know much about this platform for now. However, XBOX LIVE for Windows Phone can track your progress on XBOX LIVE while on the go, playing some games for the phone, etc.
(upcoming) PlayStation Phone
This is what people still expecting, yes, the PlayStation phone. Nothing much is known on this, but PlayStation Phone will be a phone console. The design is derived from Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Until now, there is no significant things from Sony Ericsson, but this is the image from Engadget. Engadget is always good at releasing a news about prototype leak.
Nothing you can expect right now, it’s . But, you must know that Sony Ericsson is using Android Gingerbread (2.3) on its PlayStation and 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 512 MB RAM. Huge and nice enough.
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