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chocoloco on 16 August 2012
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wfz said:
chocoloco said:

Your biggest mistake in your thinking is confusing console and pc gaming with portable gaming. These games you mention are not portable games except for 2D mario. I do not think anyone thinks moblile platforms are affecting consoles as much as they are portables. The games on consoles are too different and more adavanced than portables can currently do. Nintendo and Sony will lose out in the hendheld business, not the console business. Hence the title of the thread.

I am not confusing anything. I realize handheld platforms are dying and mobile is on an upswing. Those games I mentioned were actually all *console* games (I meant the NSMB on the Wii).

With the handhelds dying, people are afraid that these cheap mobile games will wipe out the handheld games that people traditionally enjoy. Yet at the same time, people are also admitting that mobile platforms are receiving more and more complex games. Look at the megaman game that was just announced.

These game styles people love won't just disappear. If for some reason handhelds and consoles both die, you can bet that those franchises and game styles will still be made for whatever platforms are thriving. As long as the audience is there, the sales will be there...

Yes you are confusing things because tablets cannot emulate the wii, PS3, and 360 currently. maybe the can the wii,  I do not know. That and portable games by Nintendo are nothing like Sony, MS, and PC games. They are like wii games of course, but that is it. Console games are not the same as hendheld games period.

I agree the game styles will not dissapear. Consoles will continue to make HD, PC style games and they will be popular. But, I see tablets and mobile phones getting a lot more of Nintendo and Sony style portable games and selling them at a fair price unlike those companies. Perhaps Sony and Nintendo will learn to put high quality portable games on the most versitle platforms, tablets and mobile phones. I hope so.