What I want to know is how many of those kids are allowed to make micro-transaction purchases? Especially the really young ones. Because if parents are not allowing them to do so, than the irony is that these kids are being drawn to mobile gaming while simultaneously immunized against the dominant business practices of the mobile model, learning to either grind past the micro-transaction gates or move on to another free game. Time will tell I suppose. As for mobile whipping out PC and consoles, I doubt that will ever happen. The market for them may be bigger, but that does not simultaneously mean that the other market gets destroyed. Families that have never gamed before are now gaming on their phones. They are not nor were they ever going to buy their kids consoles. Which raises the question of how reliable these surveys are for gauging the shrinkage of the console and pc space since as the mobile market grows so too does the pool they can do the survey on, thus increasing the odds of more mobile-only new-to-gaming people being selected over long standing gamers and their families, meaning the odds grow that the resulting "decrease" is actually just the survey covering the former group and not showing where a percentage of the latter group has made a switch from traditional to mobile.
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