March 9, 2007
Mobile phone gaming gears up to go 3D
3D games are taking over production, doubling the numbers from the last year, reports The Inquirer.
"For Gameloft, 2007 will see twenty 3D games and thirty 2D ones, and the number of 2D games is expected to decline further and further. The firm is also a launch partner of Nokia's N-Gage project with seven announced titles.
What made this possible is the change in the storage space available for games. Two years ago, games were ranging from 150-300KB in size and distribution was mostly done via WAP. Today, most of users have either EDGE or UMTS phones and delivery is more and more via "mobile broadband connection", thus budgets have risen to two megabytes for 3D (500-700KB for 2D ones).
Gameloft is also in negotiations with Apple regarding the iPhone", but it's not a done deal yet.
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