Is the iPhone going to be the next big mobile gaming platform? While I'm definitely excited about the possibilities, I find it tough as an avid gamer to think it will ever replace my DS, or someone else's PSP. Neil Young, formerly of Electronic Arts (not to be confused with the legendary musician) believes so strongly in the iPhone's gaming potential that he's left one of the largest gaming companies to found his own company which will focus on games specifically for Apple's phone.

Young describes the iPhone's performance as being almost on-par with that of the PSP, but goes on to mention that "unlike the PSP, it's got a touchscreen, accelerometers, a camera, it's location-aware, it's got all of your media on it, it's awake with you, it's always on, and it's always connected to the network." When he puts it like that, who wouldn't want to develop games for it?

I'm still not sure that I'd give up my DS, but I'll certainly be downloading games to my iPhone. You can bet that Ngcomo (Young's new venture) won't be the only one's working hard to make the iPhone into the next big mobile gaming platform.

[via Gamasutra]