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iPad game announcements out early and often

by Mike Schramm Mar 30th 2010 at 10:00PM

The trickle of iPad games released last week has now become a flood of iPad software news. Everybody is climbing over themselves to get the word out there about launch titles. Mobile Entertainment has what's probably the biggest news: another new swarm of titles has been found in the App Store's database, including iPad versions of the popular Fieldrunners and Flick Fishing games. Fieldrunners is a little more expensive than the iPhone version, at US$7.99, while Flick Fishing is one the few iPhone games keeping its price, logging in at $2.99.

Words with Friends HD has also been announced, and it looks excellent -- big, bright, and beautiful on the iPad's screen. The extra space also gives a little more breathing room for chatting while playing with friends. There's not a lot of actual information about the game out yet, but we presume that you will be able to play with friends still using the game on their iPhone. Doodle Blast HD was announced as well, and it looks good. There's no doubt at this point that the iPad's App Store will have plenty of titles ready to go on day one.

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lilcy

HD is just good for video enjoying, Im waiting for my ipad, and prepared well to enjoy my favourite videos and games, I had gathered a list of featured free iPad Games, I wanna paly iGolf, you can get it: http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/featured-free-ipad-games.html

March 31 2010 at 9:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dakk

"Buy my cereal." - Krusty the Clown

March 31 2010 at 7:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bawj

I dont see why people say the prices are high, they are about the same when the app store first launched around $5-$10. Since there will be a limited number of apps on the store day one, maybe they are getting a little greedy with the prices. Im positive once there is more competition on the store prices will start to drop.

March 31 2010 at 12:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

Is it $7.99 even if you bought the original or is there an upgrade path? I already paid a good amount for that game on the iPhone and I think they're being overly optimistic if they think I and many others will pay $7.99 for a higher res version. Also, as much as I love Field Runners, I'd have a pretty hard time justifying $8 for any tower defense game. I wish them well, though, because I'm looking forward to a thriving gaming community on the iPad platform and I know they need to make money to keep developing.

March 30 2010 at 11:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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john

I read Engadget's post about this right after I left my comment here. While I was reading it I was thinking if the same thing would happen to the iPad that happened to the iPhone/iPod touch (i.e., the race to the bottom in terms of pricing). Then the thought hit me that these developers might be counting on it and may simply be charging a lot initially to effectively "gouge" early adopters. Since there will be less competition on launch day, people wanting to play with their new devices will "have" to pay the higher prices. Just a thought!

March 31 2010 at 12:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

There's no upgrade path. iPad apps with iPhone counter parts will either be free to current users (developer updated to a universal app) or full price (it's a new, sperate, full app).

March 31 2010 at 12:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Morano

I'm still curious as to how the prices are going to pan out. Whether current iPhone users with the basic game, such as Flight Control, are discounted when the HD version is purchased, or given to the previous owners when buying the "iPad HD version." I'll be a little disappointed that I'll have to purchase these games for the iPhone and iPad. I thought the main purpose of having access to the App store was to use the current versions of these games on both.

March 30 2010 at 11:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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William

Agreed; it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I was also under the impression from the iPad event in January that one version of the app was the goal, but it seems like many developers are creating an iPad-specific version, and charging more for it. On the iPhone, for the most part, paying for apps is 99 cents here, $1.99 there, but on the it'll be a lot harder to justify impulse purchases on the iPad if it's $2.99 here, $7.99 there.

March 31 2010 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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