Should the iPhone hardware also be upgraded to use the quad-core processor the speculation points to, it would then be by far the most powerful handheld device on the market.

(Yeah, and with the weakest battery life too! Good luck fitting four cores with a reasonable size also)

Yeah, man. Apple gets gaming support, but not nearly as much as the DS and PSP do. It's nice to have a few games on it, but it can't be considered a hardcore handheld. At least not yet, anyway. Maybe in the future, though.

Uh, it already has Metal Gear Touch as an exclusive. If that is not enough sign of the iPhone improving then what is? The thing is, the iPhone has more potential than both the PSP and the DS for all it can do, and it does have some pretty innovative games. Hell, the games are cheaper than DS and PSP games and some are just as good. The iPhone platform is only growing and it already has EA, Ubisoft, Square, Sega, Namco, and THQ if I don't forget others. Other notable titles the iphone has are:

Katamari damacy, De Blob, Spore, Star Wars the force unleashed, Sim City, Brother in Arms, among other games; hell it's also getting bioshock, is there a bioshock on DS or PSP? It also has innovative games from new developers such as Aurora Feint and 1112 among others. It's pretty practical to have an all in one device that doesn't even need cartridges or discs. I seriously hope the next PSP has all the features of the next iPhone and more, including the possibility of using it as a cell phone. I think Sony would have sold a lot more PSPs had it been capable of being a cell phone.

It only sucks that it has the same problems as next-gen consoles, making games dependent on patches. But that would eventually happen with all handhelds anyway. Another weakness it has is the fact that Apple doesn't make games for it, which would make the platform more serious, but then again there are tons of games available for it regardless of apple making games or not so at least First Party games aren't as important for cell phones as they are for consoles.

you must really like licking microsofts balls.

he sure does!

I only heard a "baa-ing" noise.

And then I got a DS and an iPhone. They rock. PSP rocks too.

Actually, it doesn't control that great. You pit someone with a touch / tilt-only control method against someone with actual tactile buttons, such as the PSP or the DS, and I guarantee the touch / tilt controls will lose.

Nope, the PSP2 should, though.