Egann on 11 February 2015
We are probably at peak smartphone gaming right now. Gamers are starting to realize that $1.99 freemium apps on a touchscreen cannot compete with a handheld in anything except graphics (and that's really counter-productive; the Vita has production values too high for its own good.) Once the market internalizes this in another 3-4 years, you will see gaming shift back to handhelds. Smartphones obviously won't go away--they're too useful--but smartphone gaming is likely going to be an interesting indy market and not a mainstay of the industry.
This will be a weak handheld generation for sure, but I think the handheld market will come back around.
