What's so great about console games? Most of them are crappy shovelware and movie tie-ins. I also think that thumbstick controls just suck. The slow-turning aim assist completely breaks the immersion. Nobody moves like that and it feels like the game is playing itself.
Parody aside, touchscreens are great for anything turn-based, puzzle-adventures or arcade games. But perhaps the key feature is responsiveness. I can (and do) load and play a level or two of a mobile game while I wait for the PS3 to boot up > load game > load save. Great for those unskippable cutscenes, too.
Everything about console games is slow and ponderous. I don't even bother starting them up unless I know I can spend an hour on them. Mobile games are fast, responsive, and can handle whatever time I have to spare. If I only have enough time for two rounds of Sid Meier's Ace Patrol before something interrupts me, that's no problem, because the game will effortlessly suspend and autosave so no progress is lost.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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