El Duderino on 30 August 2008
| Sky Render said: I'm not sure most people will see the two as being worth merging. Generally, people want to use their phones for information and communication purposes, while they want to use their video game systems for entertainment purposes. Having one eat into the battery life of the other would not appeal to many. Certainly it has done no favors for the game system/cell phone hybrids made thus far. |
I must concur, the mobile gaming market is on the rise and revenues should hit $4.5 billion this year, also it is predicted to have a anual growth of over 10%. I think lots of people are interested in having a device that does it all...
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208801005
With batterys advancing and chips becomming much more energy efficient I don´t think this will be a problem for very long, most people don´t mind hooking up their phone to a power line every evening...
