Sega doing PalmOS Games

Bill Kendrick writes "Sega has demonstrated a number of games for Palm OS handhelds during a keynote address at the PalmSource Japan conference. PDA Live has the scoop. The games they've made so far aren't going to be released commercially, but they're available for trial download through April."

Sega is a PUBLISHER not merely a developer

[Anonymous Coward]

Sega is a PUBLISHER not merely a developer and aquires other programmers games and publishes them.

No big deal to "do" palmOS games.

They just publish 'em if they like them.

Damn.

[Gid1]

This is what I've been dreading for ages -- a big player in the Palm Game cottage industry. The thing about Palm development is that it's nice and friendly, but it's not *too* capable.

As a result, some teenager in his garage can write the best software. It's like back in the eighties when ten-year-olds would be writing assembly code and games were *playable* rather than *pretty*. It's an area of the software industry that throwing money at the task won't help.

I've been writing a pretty large scale Palm game on my own for the past six months, and it's still a long way from completion. I really don't want a big player to come in and start causing trouble for all us small-time developers.

Sorry about the unstructured rant, but I'm just annoyed now.

I Wonder

[guamman]

I Wonder when they will start making some games for Texas Instrument [ti.com]'s line of calculators. If the TI-92 [ti.com] can do multivariable calculus, it should be able to play some really decent games. Doom anyone?

Re:Woo Hoo!

[MisterBlister]

Why don't you just buy a Gameboy Advance?

Its build for gaming and has plenty of "old school" titles, including many Sega games.

I've owned various Palms throughout the years and while they have uses, they are pretty crappy game platforms for the type of games that Sega is talking about -- fine for Solitare or Minesweeper type games, I guess... Its not even a very good Tetris machine because the controls were obviously not laid out with gaming in mind...

Buying a Palm just for games is...rather silly, IMO, where there are far superior dedicated systems for that purpose.