Apple's Q4 earnings are out, records set for revenue, earnings, and sales

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rocketpig said:

iOS doesn't need to be the sole development for a game for displacement to happen. Look at DS sales; casual gamers are already jumping ship to other, more convergent, devices. Nintendo has even tried to make the DS a more convergent device itself. The hardcore gaming market will always exist on dedicated gaming market but that isn't what has made Nintendo its billions... it's the casuals who pick up a dedicated gaming device. With the power behind Android and iOS, I never see people carrying DSes around and playing them anymore. Everyone is sitting with a phone or a tablet to kill the time.

People keep ignoring mobile gaming devices but the numbers are right there for everyone to see. Companies are making money hand over fist on casual games for the platforms and people are buying them left and right while sales continue to drop for dedicated gaming machines.

Pretty much this; this part of what I concluded when I wrote a paper about video game convergence  for a media studies class. Rocketpig's description is a lot more succinct though. I see nerdrage shifting from Nintendo to Apple as gamers wake up and realize what's happening.