What aways amuses me about these types of threads is how people use percentages to represent market share without fully understanding what they're saying.
Have mobile games grown at a rate far, far beyond that of traditional gaming? Absolutely. Is the user base for mobile games much greater than that of traditional games? Without question.
However, what many people leave out is that the majority of mobile gamers are new users. The market has expanded. Most of them were not gamers at all prior to picking up Angry Birds on their cell phone. They didn't all used to be console gamers who threw away their console, not by a long shot. Yet time after time we're given the impression that mobile games have completely canniablized console games.
Imagine you own an orange stand and you're selling 10 oranges a day. A guy sets up an apple stand beside you and starts selling 20 apples a day. Your market share for fruits has gone from 100% down to 33%! OMG, you're Doomed! So what if you're still selling 10 oranges a day, your market share has fallen and all the analysts hate you! All orange lovers will obviously switch over to apples, because Doom. Clearly, apples and oranges cannot exist together. Go into any supermarket in the world and you will only find apples! I understand that oranges will be discontinued soon.
Apples v. Oranges.
Personally, I played a mobile game yesterday and ended up throwing my PS3 in the trash. I'd been playing Borderlands 2, but Disgruntled Frogs was simply a much more fulfilling experience.
