joeorc said:
while i see where you are coming from , just to point this out you may want to revise your outlook. King is a worldwide leader in casual games with more than 30 billion games played per month globally. We are a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Our mission is to provide highly engaging content to our audience to match their mobile lifestyles: anywhere, anytime, through any platform and on any device. In June 2013, an average of 92 million daily active users played our games more than one billion times per day. Our top title to date, Candy Crush Saga, is one of the largest interactive entertainment franchises of all time. since 2003, Smartphone's back than did not have the advantage of the mobile chips we have today, the point I think is even though they do not have the advantages of the chips today, they established a change in the market, today with Android, iOS, and Windows Phone OS, these new chips offer more than just "casual games" Fact is, look at the download #'s https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstargames.gtasa look at the install #'s since December 30, 2013 there have been over 100,000 - 500,000 that is just for the play store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/id763692274?mt=8 again http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/gta-san-andreas/c011568d-1578-4d0a-b1cc-9ab7daf58681 but yet they are not on the PSVita or the 3DS, the profit margins are high enough the ROI is out of this world most likely for publisher's, that is what has changed the smartphone chipsets are not just for mainly only "casual games" |
It doesn't matter what the numbers are now or how they have developed - the market will be oversatuturated at one point with these miny Games, it is just history repeating itself. People are fine playing stuff like that for now and maybe even making micro transactions, but even "casual gamers" develop their tastes after a while. Remember Tamagotchi, Wii-success, FB-Games and whatnot? There have been countless trends in the last decades. this is just one of them, albeit a profitable one.
I'm not saying Smartphones themselves won't develop into fully capable gaming machines in the future, but by then we will se "real" games on them and less stuff like that. And I wouldn't mind playing good games on my phone instead of playing them on my 3DS or my Vita. Or at least we are going to see more innovative stuff, because not all smartphone apps are crap, some are quite clever and more entertaining than "normal" games actually.
And I even have to admit that I hardly see or know anyone playing this shit when walking through the city in Germany, or taking a break during work. Most ppl actually play these games as if they were actual games - this whole bullshit about people playing on the go, in the tram or wherever is such a huge media myth ..
