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Mr Puggsly on 21 January 2011

Seriously? Hardcore gamers prefer phone games? That's not very hardcore.



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hiroko on 21 January 2011

nooo wich smartphone has 3ds graphics in 3d?



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Galaki on 21 January 2011

Yes Capcom, go right ahead and follow SE and make games for facebook, too.

That's where all the gamers go nowadays. Just make a mafia wars clone and you're done.



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Attoyou on 21 January 2011

Yeah I Play on Smartphones Now...For about Ten Minutes Before i get bored.

PSP and DS are old now, People are looking for something new and PSP2 and 3DS will bring them all back.

 



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Nintendology on 21 January 2011

The problem with relying on these quick social scene markets is that they aren't long term. It is like Myspace. These digital life styles fade away. People have no long term interest. That has been the Wii's main problem. Sure it was able to get tons of non-gamers and females and older people to start playing games, but how many games have they bought over the four years that the Wii has been around? Outside of Nintendo games (which always do well), most games have had a hard battle in order to win over the scattered Wii demographic. Social gaming is no different. These aren't the kind of consumers you want to pander to. Sure they will splurge on impulse purchases at first, but they won't stay committed. That is why Microsoft has arguably been the most succesful this generation. Even though they are 30 million units behind Nintendo, their platform has more million sellers and more million sellers from third party developers. The reason? Microsoft caters to a crowd that is willing to continually invest in software. They are more enthusiastic. They don't just game because they had an impulse and saw some inexpensive app. They game because it is a culture, a lifestyle if you will. But, these companies are so short sighted that they can't see that fact right in front of them. Have fun chasing profit for the short term. This industry is going to burn itself out.



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Munkeh111 on 21 January 2011
HappySqurriel said:

From a quick google search, the average price of an iPhone game is $1.66 ...

Being that a publisher (probably) makes around 10 times as much from the sale of a PSP or Nintendo DS game Capcom will (probably) only have to sell 350 Million iPhone games at the average price to make the same revenue they earned on the PSP and Nintendo DS. Who thinks that is likely?

Exactly, they can sell a lot, but not make very much money, higher game prices are shunned apart from extreme cases

Proper handheld consoles are definitely here to stay



MrT-Tar on 21 January 2011

Monster Hunter says otherwise




Lafiel on 21 January 2011
Nintendology said:

 I can't even imagine what the next generation will be like. $70 games may be on the horizon (at which point, I quit gaming, or stick with Nintendo at least, assuming they don't jump on the bandwagon for raising game prices).

all price increase - that's called inflation(and guess what, it's _good_)

game prices have been stable for many many years because the industry was growing enormously, but now it's growth has slowed so game prices will increase, even for your beloved Nintendo systems



Roma on 21 January 2011

no i haven't i never play on a phone... ok maybe a few min every half a year or so :P



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oniyide on 21 January 2011

@kyliedog  thats good to know, but I still rather have my full roster off the bat. thats just me. And my original point still stands theres just some games that cell phones are not going to be able to do and portables can. (GOW, MGS, any game thats button heavy)