RolStoppable said:
greenmedic88 said:
We'll just have to wait and see. This isn't a contest to see who can come up with the most convincing argument. It's just an issue of where one sees the portable gaming market moving towards.
I don't see big growth potential in dedicated gaming devices, not that this doesn't mean there isn't a huge userbase currently in place.
The question is what percentage of those mobile gamers are going to be playing most of their games on a Nintendo or Sony handheld in the next couple of years and just as importantly, what percentage of those will have migrated to the 3DS or the NGP.
And the reason why iOS growth hasn't had an effect on the DS software market is simply because it's evolving so quickly that what was available even just a year back doesn't reflect what's available today or what's currently in development.
Of course there's still a big market for dedicated portable platform games otherwise developers wouldn't have been so excited over the prospect of developing for the 3DS and NGP. It would probably be just as much of a missed opportunity to skip developing a next gen 3DS or NGP title as it would be to completely ignore iOS and Android as a publishing platform.
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When I said software market, I was refering to revenue numbers. While iOS has seen explosive growth in the last two years, DS software revenue remained stagnant. That might sound negative at first, but a video game system usually sees decline in its fifth and sixth year on the market. So with iOS experiencing such large growth with no clear visible impact on DS software sales, it suggests that we are looking at two separate markets that can perfectly co-exist with each other in the coming years.
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Yes They Can .
Untill one decides Other wise , and go's after the others market.
