| rocketpig said: 27.3m iOS devices sold over the summer. I have the feeling executives at Sony and Nintendo are sweating bullets right about now. Those numbers are frightening. There's a good chance that mobile gaming through a traditional device is slowly getting squeezed out, just as the iPad is squeezing laptop/netbook sales. Apple is finally bringing true device convergence through electronics. Everyone else is still playing catch-up |
If mobile games were displacing handheld game sales, yes. But most of the movement is probably Flash games and casual phone/computer minigames (Minesweeper) transferring to a smartphone.
Real displacement will only happen when major third parties choose iOS as sole target for a game that would previously be developed for the DS or PSP. All I've seen is rushed ports and cut down versions of DS/PSP properties.
Also I believe tablets are a fad. No one except Apple will ever make money from them and the market will stop growing in a year or two. Credit to Apple for getting what demand there is, or creating such demand temporarily through shininess.
