On November 26, 2009
Google’s Buckshot Approach to Mobile Turning Off Game Developers
Google has more than a dozen phones on deck through 2010, all with different software platforms, but game developers are already balking at the prospect of multiple platforms. Stability, not variety, is what has courted tens of thousands of game companies to the iPhone/iPod Touch in just over a year. At this rate, the Android will never pick up steam. When I interviewed Doom and Quake game creator John Carmack earlier this month, he said id Software has no further interest in developing for the Android: The issue is more Android versus iPhone. Android really has the support and the flexibility, but I’ve been talking with the Electronics Arts people about Android, and many folks are saying the money isn’t…
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