New stats show Mobile gaming is slaughtering handheld consoles!

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Silver-Tiger said:

mrstickball said:

Silver-Tiger said:
Quality wise they aren't better than flash games. They will never compete with real handheld games like Sony and Nintendo can offer.
Casual gamers may buy the phone games, but any gamer who cares at least a bit about quality will always prefer real handhelds.

I assume you haven't played any of the serious efforts on a mobile, have you? There are a lot of games that are directly comparable to decent efforts on PSP and DS - usually at a fraction of the price. Zenonia is a pretty old stand-by and was a pretty amazing game.

If consumers weren't demanding DS and PSP like experiences, then the publishers wouldn't be offering direct ports from their library such as GTA: Chinatown Wars, Final Fantasy III and so on.

Yeah, that are 3 good games in a vast ocean of crappy shovelware.

I just listed a few notable DS/PSP ports. If you say there are 3 good games on mobile, then you really have never bothered with the market, and are making the same erroneous statements that fanboys use against consoles in which they believe no good games exist.

Is there are a lot of crap shovelware due to the nature of non-restrictive app markets? Absolutely. But there are litterally hundreds of fantastic games on mobile that I would take at parity with most DS games. Additionally, you are starting to see shifting of development from handhelds then mobiles to parity with both, which is very telling for what publishers think of the market. Additionally, the sales data is so compelling, that publishers will have no choice to continue pushing their content onto mobiles. Titles like FIFA have sold multiples better on mobile than both handhelds combined.