Apple thinks they are competing with DS/PSP, launches Game Center

[Ail]

famousringo said:

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.

I think smart phones will win because of the pocket issue honestly.

It's stupid, but lets face it, for a gal it might be ok to have several  phones and handhelds in her purse, but as a guy i already struggle with a phone and I'm not going to start carrying around a man purse ...

 

There is no doubt in my mind either that in the next few years the user base for smart phones is going to grow quickly to 300 to 400 million users...( btw Iphones, androids phones and so on...)