no, cause touch screen doesn't works well in every games, mostly on mini casual genre only, same thing goes to motion control... several genre games really need a controller to work more perfectly...

I agree with your second statement, but a dent is far from making handhelds obsolete as some people think.

What's funny is that if smart phone games were to become the norm, then it would be that market that would be vulnerable to disruption by dedicated handhelds which have actual controller interfaces.  Things happen in cycles and history repeats itself. 

As an analogy, rock/metal were the popular "cool" rebel music in the '80s. When rap/hip-hop achieved that popularity in the '90s did rock music suddenly go away?  Despite seeing crossovers of both styles (just as we see console type games on phones), there is still a yearning for each as an individual, and neither is going anywhere.

Smart phones are increasingly popular, and thus the ability to play games on them will always be relevant, but there will also always be people who want a dedicated handheld for what they do right, simply because the games market is far too big and lucrative for both not to coexist, IMO.

Yes yes and yes.    I hope Apple do's win over the market. cause im tired of companys only Moving outMarket when they are geting there ass kicked.

Nintendo needs to Keep moving outmarket like it did with the Wii and DS and instead move to the Core now that it has success and pmps out the 3DS. >.<

Apple got its ass handed by MS and it took them how many years to move outmarket with the Iphone's etc?  Now that Apple have success they will move towards the Core and eventually lose to the next Company moving forward.

Its the same crap over and over again. Until a company just keeps moving outmarket Gen after gen and takes over the world.  

Who wouldn't want Steve Jobs to loosen up their buttons?

For serious now, I still can't see why people would presume that handheld smartphones would have no impact on handheld consoles. The market for handheld console games is filled by titles which are games you can play for 1-15 minutes and put down which obviously isn't going to be a major stressor on the battery life of any smartphone. Most of these 1-15 minute games are perfectly doable with motion controls and a touch screen so again the question of interface isn't exactly going to be the killer blow either. Finally we're not talking about just smart-phones here, we also have tablets and mobile media devices like the iPad and iTouch which fill in significant niches in the market so with having significantly cheaper titles to go along with it you have several advantages for smartphones and similar to eek away significant niches of what was once the sole domain of handheld consoles.

Tough I agree with most of your rant, the truth is that there is a 70 million market even for the PSP. Yes the Iphone might hinder the handheld sales, but there will always be a market for, dar I say, more professionaly handheld systems.

The question is: will we see any more 200million sales/generation, or more like 100-150 million. Either way, there still is and will be a market for SOny and Nintendo ( myabe even MS) portables.

LOOOL@ phones are leagues behind in terms of graphics.

psp is at 70 million, IOS is at 160 million.  i know, i know -- "people could have bought multiple devices".   true but you can say the same thing about the DS or the psp.   ...and IOs is up YoY.   i can't find a solid number on android but from what i understand the combined total of all android devices is even larger.  This is from a year ago but apparently the number of mobile phones (not just smartphones) has surpased 4.6 billion.  the sales potential difference is huge.

but anyways, i tried to chose my words carefully when i said "trending away from importance".  Nintendo/Sony won't be booted out of the handheld market overnight.   but remember, 5 years ago apple didn't exist in gaming.  today we're debating their relative importance to nintnedo/sony.  5 years from now i wouldn't be surprised to find apple much more important than nintnedo or sony.

to the dedicated device thing.  maybe.  i mean, there still are people that use film cameras.  not many but they do exist.  but the thing is ... someone has to make that device. if the money in dedicated gaming devices dries up so will the hardware and software providers.   because of the software dependence on the usefulness a dedicated gaming device -- i'm not so sure gaming can really support a niche market like other technologies can.  remember, when you say "professional" you really mean "expensive". 

All The phones will do is hinder the Natural Growth of the game Core market.  Who cares.

Sony already has a PsP phone on the market.

Sorry to break it to you, but the iPhones is defintely not behind in graphics. The iPhone 6 will probably even beat the NGP in graphics.