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MDMAlliance on 29 March 2013
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JayWood2010 said:
MDMAlliance said:
JayWood2010 said:
KHlover said:
Pwned. Maybe that's why JayWood left handhelds out? There's no point in comparing franchises if you leave half of the games out...


I left them out because two different markets.  But yeah if this makes you all happy then more power to you :)


Not really.  In context of the question, it's all the same market.  In terms of how games sell on each you can call them different markets, but ignoring them completely when trying to compare their "sizes" is just... not correct.


No.  What is popular on handhelds is not popular on consoles and vice versa.  JRPG games are more popular on handhelds and FPS's are more popular on consoles.  Same goes to all shooters an western rpgs.  They are two different markets and trends show that.  cinematic stories are for consoles and dialogue stories are for handhels.  Im sure you have heard things such as this would have been better on a console or this would have been better on a handheld./  That is because yes they are different.


You really don't seem to understand this issue.  Let's disect the issue so you can understand it.  Why do you think that certain games are more popular on a mobile device than one you have to keep in one room?  Why do you think some games are preferred to stay in one room rather than taken on the go?  The reason does have to do with the hardware and the nature of how they work, but the market in general doesn't change when you want to talk about those genres specifically in terms of the whole population.  Also if your point was to only compare how much people would play a 2D/3D Mario game to who would play an FPS Call of Duty game on something that stays in one room and connects to your TV, you would need to set fair boundaries on both.  You're letting the same game count more than once when counting CoD.  PS3/360/PC versions are all counting.  If you want to count all of them, you have to count the handheld versions of the Mario games because you're giving an unfair advantage to the CoD series.