Check out this snippet from Engadget...

During an ADC "iPhone Tech Talk" in San Jose, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) apparently waxed excited about the potential for the handheld as a viable threat to the DS (and the PSP by proxy), calling the iPhone a "gaming console" and claiming that "it's not a phone, it's a console experience."

I think Apple desperately wants to position the iPhone as a gaming platform. It definitely plays games, but I wouldn't call it a gaming console. I also say that the quality of games isn't anywhere near what the DS offers.

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