Thoughts on cheap iPhone games

There's a great article on Pocket Gamer at the moment discussing the current situation over on the AppStore for iPhone games. As you know, the AppStore kicked off with a bang this year with the iPhone 3G, and really made a statement about distribution models for mobile. In my opinion, it really stood up competitors like Nokia Download for what it had achieved and how it worked for developers.

Now 4-6 months on, there's a trend on the AppStore which in reality is just reflecting what happens on a lot of "off-deck" content portals and channels - poor quality content is swamping the catalogue, and open pricing is leading to over-charging for rubbish and hurting sales of higher-priced, but top shelf, games.

The big game publishers I think are still going fine. Some have said in recent week s how they either underestimated the value of the channel, or reported higher than expected profits due to the AppStore, but it's going to be the mid-range publishers I think that will suffer the most.

Read the full article here , and post your comments back here if you'd like to take up the discussion or have some experience of your own with the AppStore that you'd like to share.