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  Akira_EX | June 11, 2008
  Short answer: No.
  
  It's too expensive.
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    Magimaster | June 11, 2008
    Not really. First off, they're trying to reach a larger market by dropping the price to 200 bucks for the 8GB model, which is affordable. Secondly, regarding the pricing of games, they'd showed off some game demos at Macworld and announced that the price for the games were $9.99, which isn't very expensive. They showed off Super Monkey Ball and the Sega representative said that they managed to create more than a 100 levels for the game. Both, SMB and the other game they demoed, seemed to have graphics which rivalled the DS. So if they're charging 10 bucks a pop for all of that, then the iPhone might very well be recognized as a competitor
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  plower glove | June 11, 2008
  It's the affordability with functionality that makes it so appealing for developers. There's no guarantee all games will be $10 though, as it's up to the developers to price the software
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    Magimaster | June 11, 2008
    True, but at this point I don't think developers would risk creating a $30 software because the iPhone isn't viewed as a gaming handheld. I'm going to go ahead and assume that until the iPhone gains significant momentum in the gaming industry, developers will stick with a lower price point because we all know that the iPhone's primary funstion is to act as a phone. Heck, gaming isn't even its secondary or tertiary function. Also, I don't see why developers would deliberately create a fleshed out $40 game for the iPhone when they can generate more sales by creating it for the DS or PSP, which are gaming handhelds. My bottom line is that I don't believe most of the games will be that expensive. The service seems analogous to how Wiiware games are a cheaper, casual alternative to the main software.
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  DusktoDawn | June 11, 2008
  Too many handhelds. iphone would definitely not fit my budget.
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  Tromonator133 | June 15, 2008
  No. Right now it's a phone with a lot of extra stuff added. I think that It would be too small at the size it is for a game system. Game systems have to have certain default buttons that you press to control the game. To me it seems unlikely.