WoW on iPhone?
by Eliah Hecht 
Feb 9th 2007 at 5:05PM
iPhone World is reporting on an anonymous tip from a "reliable source" that Apple's forthcoming iPhone will run WoW:
- The Source said, "watch out for the iPhone and their new video iPod when it comes to gaming. Imagine playing WOW on them using the touch screen interface. Think of the impact its going to have on the handheld game market and Apple's revenue."
- He/she said He/she was told that WOW on the iPhone worked with both WiFi and EDGE (without simultaneous phone use) and full multi-tasking with 3G in the future. New iPod will utilize WiFi.
P.S. The above image isn't evidence of WoW on iPhone, it's just a quick Photoshop.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Sockninja Feb 9th 2007 5:20PM
its also a crappy photoshop... youd totally play it on its side ... widescreen ftw
Gunn Feb 9th 2007 5:24PM
if you believe this story. then you need help
Aphext Feb 9th 2007 7:04PM
This is totally fake, I think the default install size of WoW w/ TBC is 10GB and the largest drive in an iPhone is only 8GB not including the OS ( which is about 500 MB). Not to mention you need about 1GB of ram to run it, which the phone will not have.
gunn Feb 9th 2007 5:24PM
lol
Quills Feb 9th 2007 5:41PM
http://blog.quillsabroad.com/?q=node/15
Niru Feb 9th 2007 6:59PM
Short answer: no.
Long answer: noooooooooooooooooooooooo.
ever
Quills Feb 9th 2007 5:42PM
Eeek, sorry. Was supposed to be a comment in there, I guess the system stripped it out.
Was going to say, there is an extrapolation on the idea of WoW (or any MMO) on a mobile device.
Matt Feb 9th 2007 5:51PM
I have a bridge in NY that I'd like to sell you.
ThatGuy Feb 9th 2007 8:04PM
Think about your current cell phones and PDAs which use an ARM processor. Is the "real internet" available on many or any of them? In all likelyhood, it's not. You get a trimmed down version of particular websites that consists solely of text. Part of the reason for this is probably the bandwidth needed to download web pages off of the "real internet" the other part is the arm processor and it's capabilities. One of the big selling points of the Iphone is that it is capable of displaying the "real internet" in its browser. I think it would be a big step up from there to be able to play PC games on that processor versus just displaying web pages in a browser. The cache and amount of memory an ARM processor uses is also much less than an x86 CPU which is currently needed to play wow. Rumor has it though that the big brother to the Iphone will have an x86 cpu driving it. When you add hardware accelerators for the display and multimedia (which I am sure the curren Iphone already has) it makes it very feasable that the next generation Iphone could play wow.
Dracula Jones Feb 9th 2007 6:00PM
I'd love to see a WOW Lite client available on mobile devices.
How's this?: AH, inventory, and Talent accessibility. That's it. Your character would need to be logged out in a city so it wouldn't be exploited as a quick way to hit up AH.
Rrab Feb 10th 2007 1:33PM
No way in hell that will ever happen on an iPhone.
My Axim x50v has a dedicated 3D graphics processor, and even with that, it's only capable of displaying borderline Quake2 level graphics at 640x480 at around 5-20fps.
Lite WoW chat/AH client? Sure, that'd be cool, and completely feasible.
Roguerhunter Feb 9th 2007 6:24PM
Think again I am sure companies already been thinking of this for a while... Ha I thought about this when I fist came across this game and started using the AH.... It be a simple way to log onto ur bank and make transactions etc.... For those hr breaks buy/sell the AH be flooded and you have more people buy this phone if it was possible... I know I would.. Plus the phone can support WoW but not at 100%. HAve you seen the game DOOM on the cell phone dude imagine a lil bit of advance technology and some WoW clients this is a marketable seller. Trust me I am sure apple would like to make this possible 8million players at least half would get this apple would become push its way high on the competition... Plus theer are cell phones with ubs mines got it...
brandon Feb 9th 2007 6:30PM
Can you imagine people going AFK to answer their iPhone during a raid?
"sry guys mom is calling one sec"
Elizabeth Harper Feb 9th 2007 6:43PM
Maybe this would work with super-low resolution... Stick figure WoW, anyone? :)
Das Feb 9th 2007 9:34PM
The ARM11 is a smartphone cpu, not bad but *vastly* inferior to a full fledged x86 cpu.
Interestingly enough the iPhone uses a very similar cpu to the Zune.
len Feb 9th 2007 6:56PM
Aside from the fact that no third parties will be allowed to write software for the iPhone (only hand-picked companies under contract from Apple), there is no way that device could run WoW or any modern game. The processor wouldn't handle it, and even if it could, it'd suck your battery dry.
Right now, the highest-end phones are about the same in processing power as a late-nineties PC. Think Diablo, not WoW.
gt Feb 9th 2007 7:19PM
Over here in Japan there is a dungeon crawler arcade game called Quest of D which allows you to access your character's storage account via your cellphone to preform a variety of actions including auctions and forums. If WoW had something like that it would be pretty cool.
Lenny Feb 9th 2007 7:15PM
I already play wow on my phone...
http://amd.streamload.com/drwily/Hosted/IMG_0136.JPG
That would have better resolution so I would go for it!
JVC8bal Feb 9th 2007 7:39PM
Perhaps they will offer the ability to just chat with your friends list, and, perhaps, cruise the AH.
Michael Feb 9th 2007 8:23PM
I can barely run this game on my macbook.