Wednesday, November 17, 2010

iOS has more games than four generations of consoles


This one's strictly in the "just for fun" category of stat comparisons, but the guys over at TUAW decided to do a little headcount of the sheer number of games Apple's App Store has available for consumption. Then, just for fun, they decided to compare that to some publicly available stats on how many games the last 25 years of consoles, both the sort that plug into your teevee and the handheld type, have churned out. Of course, the caveats are plentiful, as there are a lot of duplicates and Lite versions floating about in the App Store (as well as multi-platform games among the consoles), but the general point that iOS has a lot of games on its books is made pretty clearly. Now if anyone wants to document how many Flashgames there are for browser-based consumption, we look forward to reading your results in 2013.

10 comments:

  1. Cool, But its not really the same. 90% of those ios games are hardly even games.

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  2. pshhhhhh but hell look at the quality of the games! they're all like "tap this butt and it farts" games

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  3. That doesn't equal quality though. Of course when anybody can make a game there are going to be more. The console games are made up of teams of up to 100 people. iOS games by a couple of kids in a basement. I shouldn't have to point this out

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  4. I think the phrase you used "churnned out" has bearing; quantity is more appealing (so they thing) over quality.

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  5. But I have yet to see a good game.

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  6. Of every virtue gives renown to men! Following!

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  7. waiting on a decently powered Win7 tablet. To support Flash along with other things. I know there are a few out there but they are all under powered :/

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  8. iOS has more shitty games than every other console*

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  9. To those saying quality>quantity remember, 90% of anything is shit.

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