Which Of The Big 3 Has Done The Most For Gaming?

[KHlover]

HikenNoAce said:

KHlover said:

HikenNoAce said:

KHlover said:

HikenNoAce said:

 

You're a smart one.

Seriously, people need to stop revising history. During the NES/SNES era, console gaming was considered to be for kids. Arcades for nerds or geeks. Nowadays, you can hear anyone saying that they play games.

Yeah, but you forgot to mention they play casual Smartphone games. Introduced to the concept by many games on the Wii and the NDS. You need to stop to revision history.

You're confusing adult who are gamers at core with adults who are casual gamers and only play Angry Birds.

1 Billion+ smartphone users (With over 200 Million smartphone sales per quarter) vs 140 Million PS360 users. I think the "casual" smartphone gamers represent "anyone" better than the "hardcore" gamers.

Represent "anyone"? How can they represent a category that they're not part of?

As much as you dislike the thought: Smartphone games ARE video games. Thus they perfectly are capable of representing "anyone" You said it yourself:

HikenNoAce said:

During the NES/SNES era, console gaming was considered to be for kids. Arcades for nerds or geeks. Nowadays, you can hear anyone saying that they play games.

Smartphone gamers are by far the biggest group now with an install base exceeding traditional consoles by at least a factor 10. Like so many of you pointed out so often in the past few months: Many "casuals" migrated from the Wii and NDS to smartphone gaming, so if anything Nintendo partially caused this change, not Sony as you implied with your post (although I'd say Apple did even more than Nintendo in this case).

 

@Mods: Sorry for the long quote tree, but in this case I think it is quite relevant.