The iPhone is horrible as a true gamers platform. Any game that requires you to tap a virtual button on a screen may be good for word with friends or fruit ninja, but lets be realistic, these aren't console level games. They are time wasters and iOS does usually get first rights to games with development sooner and faster, but that is all negated by one thing the iPhone is incapable of doing; using a handheld controller like a PS3 controller.
Online gaming with Shadowgun: Dead zone is awesome, but if you try to use the on screen virtual controllers, you won't last long. You want some high quality graphics and great game play, try Dead Trigger or Shadow gun THD. Want a racing game, Riptide GP.
I mention these games first because you can simply plug in a PS3 controller and it is natively supported. No rooting required. If you do root, you can map the PS3 controller for just about every game from Need for Speed: Most Wanted to Modern Combat 3.
Here is a screen capture of my Nex7 of Shadowgun THD.
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If I'm gaming on my phone, I'm on the go, where the ability to plug in a PS3 controller is useless to me, as I most likely won't have one with me, or if I did, using one would be incredibly awkward.
If I'm at home, I'd rather be gaming on my PS3 or on Windows with a mouse and keyboard. I'm not going to plug a PS3 controller into my N7 and play on a (compared to my TV and monitor) tiny screen.
Besides, a lot of iPhone games control really well using the touchscreen. It obviously suits some genres better than others, but some games have excellent controls.
Infinity blade is a pathetic game. As for namco and the rest those games may not be in the play store, but it is still very easy to get them loaded.
By the way how do you like playing SNES and N64 and PSP games on iOS? Oh that's right, you can't.
You can get most emulators on a jailbroken iPhone. That obviously doesn't apply to the 5, but personally, other than for RPGs, I find using emulators on a touchscreen device to be a very poor experience. I tried N64oid with Zelda: Majora's Mask and found the controls incredibly irritating. I could, as you would like to point out, have plugged in a PS3 controller and used that, but if I'm going to do that, I'd prefer to plug it into my laptop and use a more powerful version of the emulator which is going to give me far better performance on a much bigger screen. By the way, saying you can play PSP games on an Android is a bit disingenuous, the emulator is basically a proof-of-concept at this stage. There's no way in this world you're going to be playing glitch-free MGS: Peace Walker at a good 30+ FPS on an Android device. Not yet anyway.
I also realised something recently when getting N64oid though the SlideME market, I went through all that trouble... just to play games I've played over and over and over, and for what amounted to be a subpar experience. The controls were awkward and the emulator wasn't handling the games all that well.
I came to appreciate the absolute stack of original content iOS has. For example, why play FF6, again (I've played it so many times), under an emulator which isn't optimising the game for the screen size or resolution, input method etc when I could be playing an amazing, original new RPG from Square-Enix like Chaos Rings 2?
How do you like playing first person shooters by trying to tap a screen? That must be awesome. Wanna play Call ot Duty: Black Ops? Sorry, nocan do on ios.IOS is great for those kiddy games. That's about it.
It is sad that anyone actually thinks that an I device is even close to having the same capabilities as Android. You go play your cutesy timed swiping with infinity blade and get bored repreating the same moves. I just finished Shadowgun and now gonna go shoot the zombies with dead trigger.
Watch out, the PC gaming master race will strike you down for daring to suggest shooters are playable with a controller.
You seem to think anything that doesn't involve using a gun to shoot things to be 'kiddy' when it comes to games. If that's what you enjoy, fair enough, but there's plenty of great games in a number of genres on iOS that other people love that don't involve shooting and guns.
