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Soundwave on 26 January 2016
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
I think where you're wrong is saying they're not a replacement for handhelds. They are. They get the job done for most people and they have a killer draw that Nintendo can't ever match -- free games. Thousands and thousands of them. Backed by monster marketing budgets that Nintendo can't come close to. 

Lots of kids these days don't even know Nintendo's version of "every kid should have a Game Boy/DS" ... they're not raised in that culture at all, they have a tablet placed into their hands by age 2/3, they laugh when I tell them Game Boy was the cool thing when I was a kid. This generation has no frame of reference, this is normal to them. 

This is like when people said Netflix is not a replacement for Blockbuster Video and traditional rental stores. After all, you can't rent all the New Releases with Netflix, it's just mostly older catalog movies. 

But Netflix did pretty quickly destroy the Blockbuster model. It was far more convienant, and even if people weren't getting the big gun movies, the overall selection you can get on Netflix trumped the old model. 

For the record, I kinda miss Blockbuster/physical rental stores, but what can you do. 

They definitely are not. They don't attract the same market at all.

And of course they laughed. The gameboy is old tech literally.

It's not at all like that. Netflix plays the same movies at a better resolutions without needing to wait for anything and it's completely on demand 24/7. It is literally an objective improvement in literally every way. People who said it wasn't replacing blockbuster were morons. Mobile games are literally different games with different input methods and a different design phylosophy. It's like saying a television episode is the same as a movie. It's not.

I don't miss inferiority at all.

 

I guess the most pertinent question is does anyone really need to play "deep" games with physical controls on the go? I mean who are these people that have time to sit around for hours on end. The thing is a lot of people don't care. To be honest they generally want simpler games on the go. Getting too deeply involved in a game outside of the house is not a positive because there are things happening around you in the real world that require attention too. 

Netflix still doesn't get a lot of the "big" new release movies, that was always the bread and butter of the rental market before, people always said Blockbuster couldn't be abandoned because people would still want to rent the Jurassic Parks, Avengers, etc. but it turns out this thinking was wrong.