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‘City of Heroes: the Movie’; iPhone availability
“Heroes” are hot, as is evidenced not only by the TV show of the same name, but by the success of “Spider-Man 3” this summer and the full slate of superhero movie projects coming down the pike.
So it should come as no surprise that Austin-developed “City of Heroes,” the videogame, is being made into a movie by some of the principals behind July’s “Transformers.” Movie rights have been snapped up, but according to my source at NCsoft, a story that ran yesterday in Variety is old news: he says those rights were snapped up three years ago by Tom DeSanto.
Still: superheroes vs. aliens on a big screen. The fanboys will pay to see that. The sequel is ready-made with “City of Villains.” And, though I’m biased on this point, you can’t lose with a hero named The Statesman.
We’re all assuming that the iPhone is going to be incredibly hard to find and that long, disappointed lines of people are inevitable. But what if there’s an iPhone for every set of anxious fingers that want them?
Apple Insider thinks there’ll be 3 million iPhones available on June 29. That seems to gibe with goals to sell 10 million of the devices next year.
If you’re still convinced we’re in for Nintendo Wii-like shortages, consider this: people thought the PlayStation3 would be in incredibly short supply for a long time until shoppers were struck into dismissal by the price tag: at $500 and $600, the two models of the PS3 are priced the same as what the iPhone will cost.
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