Does the new iPod touch games work on the regular iPod?

Posted by on March 8th, 2009 at 10:31pm

The iPod touch and the iPhone have sure changed the general view of the iPod. As I mentioned in my previous post Are iPod Touch Games going to overthrow the PSP. We really need to start thinking of this device as more than just an MP3 player. It is already much…much more and I’m sure Apple is looking at the success of the games on these devises and they are planning on improving their market share in the portable gaming industry.

One of the questions I see popping up here and there is whether the iPod touch games can work on the regular iPods. While there are some games that are available for both devices most of the games that are specifically developed for the iPod touch cannot work on the regular iPod. Why is this? Well the iPhone and the iPod touch are way more advanced than the traditional iPods. Also most of the games developed for these platforms make use of the touch screen and the accelerometer which are not available on the regular iPods…yet.

I definitely see Apple implementing some features into the iPod to aide in the gaming category, however I do not think they will make it to the level of the games that can function on the iPod Touch.

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