st0pnsw0p on 11 February 2015
| Egann said: 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. |
No one ever thought that mobile games (or at least, the vast majority of them) could compete with handheld games interms of quality. Nothing's changed or will change; People who are only interested in gaming as a fun distraction when they have nothing better to do will continue playing those dirt-cheap games on their phones and people who are more invested in gaming as a hobby will still buy handhelds for the higher-quality games.
