| JayWood2010 said:
lol nobody makes a contest out of Apple because its not a game console. It just happens to have games on it. Most games on the IOS market also fails miserably. Only a small few out of like the millions of games on there has success. Games on consoles makes a much better profit. |
You're missing the point.
People don't need to buy dedicated handheld gadgets to play games.
The niche market for those who want to play mobile games that replicate the console experience is a small portion of the overall market. The market for $40 mobile games in general is being squeezed by the simple reason that there are now cheaper options. It's irrelevant whether games distributed on chips and sold at retail have higher production values; for the most part, that's something that only the core gaming audience cares about. Who do you think bought all those low budget DS games?
Even titles that sold tens of millions of copies and millions of DS consoles like Brain Age can be and are easily replicated on other mobile platforms. You don't need to buy a 3DS for that.
And it still costs more to develop and publish for the 3DS, the DS, PSP, PSV, etc.
You don't have to like it, but more kids who are being introduced to games for the first time aren't playing on dedicated gaming systems, portable or home console. They're playing on iOS devices because they're simple to use, the software is essentially a throwaway purchase for the parents buying the games, and their parents already own the devices with no need to buy dedicated gadgets.
I have a 2 and a 4 year old niece and nephew; both play games on the iPad. I can tell you right now if I bought either of them a 3DS with a copy of Team Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies or whatever children's show game they're watching, the novelty would wear off fast, the 3DS would end up in the toy bin, the parents wouldn't buy any more games for it and the kids would go back to playing on the iPad. Cheap games or no, to the kids, a $30-40 3DS game would have the same replay value as a $.99 game they particularly liked.
