| Chazore said: Yeah, but mate, we've seen what you don't like happening on here too, so why even bother going for it?. Like I fail to see the entertainment value lol. "lets be honest , these types of games with the quality Nintendo produces are nowhere." You do realise there are more folks who game on mobile devices, than there are those that play the "quality" (let's just say objectively better than anything else on the market in all of history, because that's what it honestly feels like half of you are aiming to say, but won't flat out mention) Nintendo titles and those who just don't care about Mario/Zelda?. You'd be surprised the amount of ppl that play Candy Crush on the daily, or hell, genshin Impact, a gacha game that is it's own thing, but I'll always see folks here and there going "those don't hold a flame to what Nintendo makes!", and yet both of those make a metric fuck ton of cash and retain so many players, so I guess that ends up making one's view of quality "subjective"?. |
No, I'm not surprised at all how many people play or pour money into Candy Crush or other mobile games. I used to have a co-worker that thought it was weird that I would bring my Nintendo Switch to work to play on lunch break and that I still bought consoles and games at my age. Yet, there he would be on his work computer during down time playing Candy Crush. The extremely important thing to bear in mind regarding mobile games is that their userbase already own the device required to play them. Nobody buys a mobile phone with the intention of using it primarily to play Candy Crush or Coin Master or Clash of Clans, etc. They already have the phone, and that start downloading apps for time wasters, that for some can develop into wallet drainers. But, regardless of the whales that each of those games accumulates, none of those people are in the market to purchase a $300 or more dedicated gaming console or handheld. It's that type of misaligned thinking that gets someone like Tommy Tallarico to claim the Intellivision Amico had "limitless potential" because it would "tap into the mobile market of nearly 2 billion people" (nevermind the fact that the Amico wasn't even a mobile/handheld device...). Mobile gaming exists completely separate from console and dedicated handheld gaming, because it caters to a userbase of people who already own the required hardware and are mostly looking for something cheap (or so they think until those microtransactions pile up) to waste their time on regardless of gameplay/story/visuals that other gaming media are built around.
Top grossing Android games in Q2 2022
- Candy Crush Saga – King – $122 million
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- Coin Master – Moon Active – $99.2 million
- Roblox – Roblox Corporation – $68.1 million
The people who sink money into these mobile games, for the most part, aren't going to consider buying a Nintendo Switch or a Steam Deck. The ones that I know don't even think of themselves as "gamers".
I know that I'm remarking to a comment that wasn't directed at me, but I feel the need to point this out every time the size of the mobile market gets mentioned in relation to the dedicated gaming hardware and software that gets tracked on this website.
On topic, I sometimes think that I might one day like to have a Steam Deck. But, for me personally, it's not as advantageous as it sounds on the surface. The games that I play on PC are generally turn based and real time grand strategy games not found on home consoles. And the more I think about it, I don't think I would enjoy playing that type of a game on a handheld screen. And, the size of the Steam Deck most certainly is a bigger issue for me in terms of portability compared to the Switch. I went to the movies yesterday with my wife, and I was able to carry my Switch, without any carrying case, as it slid right into the side pocket of the tracksuit pants (not sure if that's the correct pants style name) I was wearing. I'm not saying I could carry it in jeans or khakis of course, but it does fit just fine in the style of pants that I often do wear for casual attire. For smaller pockets, I sometimes detach the joycons, and in cooler weather it slides right into the inner pocket that all of my jackets have. So for me specifically, that is a plus in the Switch's favor that would not apply to the Steam Deck.
