Cliff Bleszinski: Industry turmoil worst since '80s crash

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richardhutnik said:

avais1993 said:
I seriously doubt that consoles are in any state of turmoil, yes people are downloading games on tablets/mobiles, but most of these games are FREE and for the casual market who want something to play whilst their on the train to work.

If anything its opening up casual gamers to games that might lead them to buy a console and experiance some true gaming, people will always look at consoles as the main "gaming machine", it doubt that's going to change anytime soon, and true, graphics are improving on tablets and are pretty good, but its just uncomfortable to play on i cant see them taking anything away from consoles anytime soon.

The landscape of the industry might be different, but the kings are the same, new technologies open up but until they become superior (without the associated cost of gaming pc's) then consoles will always be the industry standard.

Look at the profit margins and studios closing.  And the industry is DEMANDING that new consoles get releases, because they think that fixes things.  People can't see the future here.  How many more playing Wolverine but can only carry 2 weapon FPS titles do we need?  The growth is in the iPhone/iPad settings with much smaller costs.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/02/3ds_eshop_version_of_gunman_clive_outsells_android_edition

Take the user base of the 3DS minus Japan (which this game hasn't released yet on Japan's 3DS eshop) vs iOS and Android.  Pretty soon this game will outsell both combined on the 3DS.  Now tell me where developers might stand a better chance of making real money on hand held gaming.