Japan’s Smartphone Games Market 50% of Japan's total games market in 2013

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famousringo said:

Ka-pi96 said:
But smartphone games aren't very good. Why people. WHY!?

Remember all that disruption talk in the heyday of the Wii? Remember how it starts?

Crappy products for non-consumers.

The difference though is no one needs a Wii so it was easy to ditch once people had their fun with it and moved on. 

A smartphone/tablet are central to most teenagers and adults' day to day (heck, minute to minute) lives. Take someone's smartphone away from them for even an hour and see how much they freak out. 

So if they always have a smartphone in their pocket, they'll always have access to these games, that's why I don't see them going anywhere. Especially when the price tag (free to 99 cents) is such an impulse buy.