Apple to price iPhone games at $25 a pop

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Apple plans to charge a whopping $25 for games that use its iPhone, a developer has revealed.

Ignacio Cavero, CEO of development studio LemonQuest, told PocketGamer that Apple's "games would be sold in iTunes for €17-18" (which is about $25, or £14). Currently, games for the iPod cost $8.

Whilst LemonQuest can only say its working on "a big UK licence, and we're using all the capabilities of the iPhone," EA and Sega have confirmed they're releasing adaptations of Spore and Super Monkey Ball on the platform.

After the inevitable UK price hike we wouldn't be surprised to see these titles land here for about £20.

That's about the same price as most Nintendo DS games, coincidently enough. It all points to Apple finally sizing up to Nintendo in the handheld space. But could, as a Forbes story yesterday claimed, the iPhone kill the Nintendo DS? We're not convinced.

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Originally Posted by Shrygue

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Currently, games for the iPod cost $8.

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When did the iphone get games ?

well back in aug 07 in the UK itunes video store they found two strains
/* ===== iPhone Game Item Strings ===== */
"4329.001" = "Are you sure you want to remove the selected game from your iPhone?";
"4329.002" = "Are you sure you want to remove the selected games from your iPhone?";

and with the SDK release this year came demos of touch fighter and spore in september i think.

feel free to correct me anybody