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PocketGamer have an interview with Firemint CEO, Robert Murray, on their highly anticipated Real Racing mobile game. Rob provides some thoughts on the connectivity and social features of Real Racing which he believes will be the benchmark for future games.
Also on the discussion is the iPhone app store and the challenges of selling a title for that platform where people expect to only pay $10 for a premium quality game which developers could charge much more on other mobile platforms. From PockerGamer...
Robert Murray: "Nintendo DS has far more units on the market, and premium games sell for US$30 or more. So we are funding a game that is more advanced and costly than a premium Nintendo DS title, but hoping to make the money back at $10 per unit with a fraction of the install base of the Nintendo DS..."
Firemint certainly have some big plans in the future with social games, and they've got some big announcements to make fairly soon, and we can't wait to hear what it is! For the full article, head on over to PocketGamer.