“In the eye of the typical beholder, Apple’s iPhone is simply a popular device, great for fun, on-the-go applications — and phone calls,” Mike Snider reports for USA Today.
“But mobile-game publisher Neil Young sees the iPhone as a catalyst for a revolution in entertainment that’s beginning to spread from mobile devices to the home,” Snider reports. “Users of the iPhone and Apple tablet iPad already are setting the pace for spending on games and other apps, so it ‘
seems inevitable’ that these devices will jockey for space on the TV, says Young, 41, who helped produce big-name video games at Electronic Arts before leaving to start his own company, Ngmoco, in 2008.”
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“‘We are 12 to 24 months away from being able to disrupt the living room with experiences that you might be playing on an iPad version four, but projecting … to a TV in your living room,’ he predicts. It’ll be ‘every bit as good’ as the experience of playing a high-end console game today, he adds,” Snider reports.
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Scott A.” for the heads up.]
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