While reading SONY's Playstation blog located at,
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/04/06/monster-hunter-coming-to-psp/ (Available 7/4/09)
I notice this part:

With thousands of different types of weapons and armor, as well as over 500 hours of gameplay, this is the most engrossing action/RPG title for the PSP ever created.

I say: Woaaah! Hold it! Hold it! That's just... awful! I know I'm not alone in feeling this way, but the supposedly 500 hours of gameplay is for me not a selling point. It's dreadful! I don't want to invest that much time into a game, I especially don't want to invest it in a handheld. Don't get me wrong, I love handheld games. But 500 hours?

Sure, 500 hours is probably an exaggeration to say the least, but heck, I don't want to spend more than 30 hours on one game.

I'd much prefer 6-12 finely crafted hours.

500 hours... Eeew!

... Well, actually I just envy him so much it hurt! Another thing that hurt is my lef thumb because I accidently cut a bit of it off yesterday while chopping lettuce. But that's another story, the bleeding just stopped so I'm okay except for the fact that I can't navigate the left analogue stick for a  while.

Anyway, this Ethan Nicholas guy.

He makes this game for the iPhone and iPod Touch and guess what? Now he's filthy rich!

I found out about it on Finger Gaming:

What’s particularly interesting, however, is that the article reveals the numbers needed for a title to become the App Store’s biggest seller in the Games category. iShoot reached the top spot after achieving more than 10,000 daily downloads — that’s a daily cut of $21,000, after figuring in Apple’s percentage of the take. So, Nicholas is unbelievably rich now, basically. Good job, man.

http://fingergaming.com/2009/01/ishoot-developer-gets-10000-downloads-daily-quits-day-job/, Jan 20th -09

iShoot. Guess I'll have to buy it so the guy gets even richer...