The mobile market shows the danger of parity

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VanceIX said:

small44 said:

VanceIX said:

ikki5 said:

See, the thing is about phones though, is people don't buy them for games. Games on them are just extras. I see a lot of posts how so many more people have phones but lets face it, only a fraction of those are people that actually go to play games on them regularily. People get phones for communication where as the handhelds are for gaming and if people want a handheld, they will probably look to the handhelds over the phones. This may change and it may inhibit the handhelds currently but I doubt phones will take over the handheld gaming sector in the near future.

You'd be surprised about just how much game revenue phones provide. Sure, people don't neccessarily buy  for games, but for most people the only gaming they do is on their phones.

98% of revenue are from f2p  game with great graphics mean bigger budget mean more expensive games and Smartphone gamers won't pay more then 1$ for a game

Really? Last I checked, Minecraft, Final Fantasy 3/4/5/6, Chaos Rings I/II, Grand Theft Auto III/SA/VC, and Dragon Quest 8 were all doing amazingly well, and they are all paid games.

I never see any number about those games

The source about  98% of mobile games revenues is f2p:

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/23/google-play-growing-growing-growing-downloads-up-1-5x-revenue-up-2-5x/