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Try the iPhone .
Like everyone else with software to drummer, top-tier game developers are flocking to the iPhone, and gamers are reaping big rewards. Blockbuster titles like The Sims 3 or First-rate Theft Auto , which might cost $30 or $40 on other gaming platforms, are selling for $7 and $10, each to each, on iTunes.
And the iPhone’s processing power makes it a frightening challenger to hand-helds like Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. And then some.
“The iPhone 3GS as a matter of fact blows both of them out of the water,” said Dave Castelnuovo, go to Davy Jones's locker of Bolt Creative, the developer of PocketGod ($1), the top-selling iPhone victim.
Things will get even better this year, said executives from Sega, Electronic Arts, GameLoft, Ngmoco and others. Gamers can look for more social-networking elements similar to the Mafia Wars and FarmVille titles on Facebook , as well as the certainty to sample many more premium titles free.
What about Android, BlackBerry and Palm devices? It’s a half-bred bag. Electronic Arts released a spate of titles for the BlackBerry, but some developers, like Ngmoco, have so far ignored the stage.
Source: New York Times