One of gaming's heaviest hitters has finally jumped on the iPhone App Store bandwagon, leading with its best foot forward.
Rockstar Games announced Monday that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch this fall.
The game was originally created for the Nintendo DS, but sold below expectations. A port of the game for the PSP will be released October 20th, but Apple's mobile platform seems like a better fit since it will take better advantage of the touch-screen mini-games.
There are also plans for iPhone and iPod touch versions of Beaterator – an upcoming PSP music game that Rockstar created in collaboration with hip-hop producer Timbaland. It, too, is due on Apple platforms this fall.
If Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars finds popularity on the iPhone that it couldn't find elsewhere, we could see more major publishers committing manpower towards creating games for Apple first, leaving the PSP (and perhaps even the DS) as an afterthought.
Image courtesy Rockstar Games
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