Gaming on the iPhone - could be great

I've seen a number of articles on various sites recently regarding the iPhone's potential as a gaming platform.  Everyone seems to agree that the phone has the hardware to make a superb gaming machine.  The best article I have come across is on Roughly Drafted Magazine and was written by Eran Dilger.  As a developer, himself, he has more credibility than some of the other writers I've read.

In a long and very interesting article he states: "

The iPhone is in a significantly different class of performance, has far more internal resources for games, and is equipped with a variety of other hardware–from its camera to its ubiquitous (if slow) mobile network to its multitouch high resolution display and accelerometers–all of which have to power to unlock entirely new classes of games and other more serious applications.

As a handheld console, this feature set makes the iPhone a bit like the Wii, with interactive new gameplay features, and a bit like the PS3, with higher performance gaming specs and additional online and media capabilities. Buyers won’t have to decide if they want a handheld game console; they’ll get it for free when they buy the iPhone or iPod Touch."

I suggest you read the whole thing here, and start to get excited now!