How to beat the iPhone: allow porn?

[magus113]

Well the thing is, hardcore content like extreme violence or nudity on the DS isn't really as marketable. There are only a handful of mature games on the Nintendo DS that I (and MobyGames) are aware of.

Dementium: The Ward (which was actually pretty creepy and gory all things considered, and I look forward to the second since they've improved a lot of the mechanics that were wrong with the first one)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (which was mostly just because of violence, and language, and the violence was more cartoony)
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (a port of a bad looking PSX classic that just had random blood sprays everywhere that looked pretty terrible)
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (I know nothing of this, but I know the SMT series has some pretty fucked up stuff in it)
Touch the Dead (We all know)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and of course MK3 is a given).

I think the big selling point of gore and hardcore content is how realistic (or unrealistic) it is to the person playing. I mean you would get a headshot in Gears of War and you saw pieces of things flying and a spray of blood..not exactly the easier thing to pull off on a console like the DS.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Uhm there's an iPhone App called grinder which is for gay men and women to find each other. it actually uses the GPS of the iPhone to locate others and notify you. Yeah you can't show your cock or tits, but god damn you have an app designed to get you laid.

I think that's a little worse.

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by magus113

Well the thing is, hardcore content like extreme violence or nudity on the DS isn't really as marketable. There are only a handful of mature games on the Nintendo DS that I (and MobyGames) are aware of.

Dementium: The Ward (which was actually pretty creepy and gory all things considered, and I look forward to the second since they've improved a lot of the mechanics that were wrong with the first one)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (which was mostly just because of violence, and language, and the violence was more cartoony)
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (a port of a bad looking PSX classic that just had random blood sprays everywhere that looked pretty terrible)
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (I know nothing of this, but I know the SMT series has some pretty fucked up stuff in it)
Touch the Dead (We all know)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and of course MK3 is a given).

The thing is all the games you've listed are full-featured games with decent budgets and developer teams behind them. Of course with games like that, you want a wider audience so you can get a return on your investment. The apps that are getting censored by Apple are cheap bits being sold for $2.99. If your audience is limited because there's a sex scene in there somewhere, it hurts a lot less. But the thing is Apple isn't allowing stuff like that on the iPhone at all so the audience becomes absolutely limited. With DSWare, on the other hand, I'm not aware of any reason why any such software would be banned as long as it went through the ESRB.