Samsung blazed pass Apple at killing hanheld console gaming

[justinian]

sapphi_snake said:

Munkeh111 said:
Gaming is nowhere near as strong on Android as iPhone. Even with the greater shipments of Android, iOS is the larger gaming platform, so I wouldn't quite agree with the thread title, even if we assume smartphone gaming is killing proper gaming...

This will change pretty soon though, as developers will have no reason to not focus on Android when it will surpass iOS phones.

The problem game developers have with android phones is fragmentation and they are vocal about it.

Samsung sold a lot of phones with the Galaxy leading the way but a lot of them were different models and hardware based on Android.

A game developer cam easily write a game that works on every iphone without much alteration.
A game developer must take into account the large number of different manufacturers, hardware, type (touchscreen phone , buttons) etc., when working with android.

The article can be misleading if not read correctly. The Galaxy didn't sell 27million or whatever. It was all of Samsung combined Android phones that did. A figure for the Galaxy was not published.

It's a shame google doesn't make money on android sales.