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kitler53 on 19 October 2010
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Soleron said:
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.

i'll only speak to the anecdotal evidence that is my own buying habits but..

since i got an iphone i have completely stoped buying games for my DS,  changed my mind about buying a psp, and have very little interest in a 3DS.  yes, the games on iphone aren't of the same caliber as ds/psp games but the convience of the device (size wise and multifunctional wise) just far outweighs anything nintendo/sony offers. throw in the fact most games are 1 or 2 bucks and can be downloaded from anywhere and i can't imagine buying a dedicated handheld gaming device ever again.

and frankly, angry birds is amazing.