ctalkeb said:
That, of course, isn't the main reason why Vita/3DS will dominate games wise. That reason is down to: 1: Controls. 2: Budget: 3DS/Vita games will be budgeted to sell a decent amount of copies at around 30$ per game. Mobile games have to have an extremely low sales price to be a success. That means that they have to have lower developement costs to be sure to break even. 3: To be a success, mobile games have to cater to a number of different devices and hardware specs - they can't program for the highest end device on the market. In short: It is the same as why 360/PS3 games can be far ahead of PC in terms of art assets, even when the hardware is weaker. It is evident that high-end tablets and cellphone devices will eclipse the PSV in power by, at the very least, 2013, but as games devices, it is unlikely that they will surpass them - at least as far as we're concerned. The focus on that platform will surely stay on the quick-to-play, cheap-to-develop, cheap-to-buy Angry Birds type of experience. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Even now, newer games on the ageing PSP offer far more graphical and gameplay-wise content than even the more ambitious of tablet/smartphone games. |
good pts however tablets are constantly evolving so eventually we may see controls that equal if not surpass both PSV/3DS. Just because tablets currently caters to the cheap, casual gameplay experience doesn't mean it won't develop visually stunning and more immersive games in the future. Development costs and increase competition from tablets and smartphones will inhibit 3DS/PSV to sell to the amount of software they did in the previous generation. Also the core will eventually embrace smartphones and tablets as their new gaming choice since it does other things besides gaming.
