vivster said:
If quality on mobile is shit, why is the dedicated console market losing customers? Great games will always be there, no matter the platform. The bad quality of mobile games is vastly exaggerated. Just because the stores don't have very much quality control and let every shite through doesn't mean there aren't good games among them. In fact there are quite a few great games on mobile. Where do you think the people with money and talent will go after the console market is over? Do you think they will just stop making games? The biggest problem of the mobile market is actually how big it is. It seems counter intuitive but with such a big market comes a lot of competition. It's not justifiable to put a lot of money in a mobile game unless you know it will succeed. And at the moment the only guarantee for that is to already have a big name like Nintendo. The mobile market is not inherently worse, it's just a different platform that adjusted to the customer's needs. Currently there are not many great AAA experiences on mobile because people go to console for those. But as soon as consoles begin to die the demand on mobile for these experiences will increase and some people will gladly step in that gap and try to satisfy the demand. So yeah, the reason why people perceive the mobile market as bad is because they are not there demanding quality games. Mobile is bad because people don't want it to be good, all the while clinging to outdated closed platforms like consoles. |
never said people will stop working. I agree that the money and people will move to mobile gaming, but to make shit games.
The mobile market is inherently worse, bad optimization, bad controls, nobody wants to pay, and even when you want to pay, you don't know if it's the right decision because there is so much shitty games that you are afraid you'll just throw away money. For example I bought GTA chinatown wars on Android, it's unplayable, even rockstar didn't give a shit enough to adjust the difficulty. I can't even past the first missions.
Also most popular mobile games aren't even games, they don't ask for player to be skilled, just to spend time tapping on the screen doing repetitive and addictive actions.
Even a very average console game is still a lot better than the best mobile game out there.
Now, that's the reality today, I hope things change, but right now the future of gaming is pretty bleak.
