| Ail said: Most people don't get the idea. In the future more and more people will have smartphones and those phones will be able to run more and more complex games. As this spread, will people want to have to purchase and carry both a smartphone and a gaming portable ? That is what is doubtfull.. The natural evolution in this area is eventually for gaming portables to disappear, the only question is when this will start happening........ |
I agree that there's pressure to go that way, but I don't think it's quite so cut and dried. The ubiquity of the PC hasn't killed the growth of the console. Consoles have continued to grow by offering values that PCs have a hard time realizing, such as lower price barriers to entry, local social gameplay, and interfaces optimized for gaming.
The challenge to handheld game consoles is to seek out and deliver similarly unique value that phones have a hard time providing. The extra challenge to handhelds is that people are more amenable to having multiple specialized devices in their homes than in their pockets. Not an easy task, but I don't think its insurmountable.
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