| kowenicki said:
This is head in the sand stuff. The mobile market is going to explode. Tablets are niche products still depsite what people think, In the next 2 to 3 years every home will want or have one. We shall see who is right here I guess in quite a short space of time. Imagine how powerful the ipad 6 and other tablets will be in 3 years time... the Vita and 3DS will only be half way through their lives. |
Processing power isn't these devices issue though ...
While smartphone adoption will continue to increase, most people in the developed world who want a smart phone (or have a use for a smart phone) already own one. The remaining late adopters are mostly going to replace their feature phone eventually and upgrade to a smart phone, but will most likely buying cheaper phones and will be far less likely to spend significant amounts of money on them. Those people who want to play games on their smart phone are already playing games on their smart phone, and those that are willing to buy games are already buying them.
As for tablets ...
After Christmas last year I was surprised by the number of people I saw with tablets. In the morning there were several people in my gym recording their workout on their tablet and watching videos while they did cardio, on the way to work there were dozens of people on transit reading ebooks, playing games or watching videos, and practically all of the developers at work had picked up a cheap tablet and were regularly carying them to meetings. I don't see these tablets anymore. My tablet, and most of the tablets of people I know, are used primarily as ebook readers and web-surfing devices at home.
While I have no doubt that tablets will continue to sell well,but I find it funny that the people who argue that people wouldn't buy a dedicated gaming device because a smart phone can already play games and people already have to cary a phone somehow do not see that a smart phone already does everything a tablet does and people have to cary phone with them and a tablet is far less portable than a dedicated gaming device is.
