Is it Official? : Mobile Games are #1??

[mornelithe]

Hiku said:

mornelithe said:

Yeah, because Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are about to dissolve their entire hardware business and put their developers strictly on mobile development.  Do people even think before they ask questions?  So, why hasn't every fine dining restaurant shut down their high end foods operations and sell only easy to make garbage w/ low quality produce/meat?  Why hasn't Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Mclaren, Bugatti, etc... given up making high end luxury or supercars, and just make carbon copies of econo lines?

As I said, still trying to figure out why anyone cares.

Since when does switching development resources from console to mobile equal disolving their entire hardware business?
And since when does it have to be an all or nothing situation before it affects anyone to the point where they should start caring?

In the meantime, here's the sequel that Breath of Fire fans have been anticipating for years.

Pretty simple, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all have home console and/or dedicated handhelds, by pushing their own resources towards mobile development, they're undermining their own hardware.  More money to be made if they simply sell a license to some mobile dev, to use some of their IP in design for a mobile game, than dedicate any of their internal staff to such things.

The other thing to keep in mind is that, not every developer wants to make shitty casual games.  If Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo were to start a concerted push, diverting 1st party resources to such a thing, they could start losing some of the massive pool of talent they've all accrued over the years.  That's also something these companies have to consider.