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famousringo on 28 March 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
But smartphone games aren't very good. Why people. WHY!?


Remember all that disruption talk in the heyday of the Wii? Remember how it starts?

Crappy products for non-consumers.



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PullusPardus on 28 March 2014
LiquorandGunFun said:
wow they have low standards.


yeah Flappy bird is totally better than all the awesome games they get.



VanceIX on 28 March 2014

This is really depressing. What's even worse is that if all the JRPG developers go purely mobile, the chances of localized games falls even more, as mobile games are rarely localized right now D:



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hinch on 28 March 2014

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Guess we'll be seeing less 'proper' Japanese games from developers and publishers, in the future.



outlawauron on 28 March 2014
VanceIX said:
This is really depressing. What's even worse is that if all the JRPG developers go purely mobile, the chances of localized games falls even more, as mobile games are rarely localized right now D:

Not always the case, but there's still something wrong even when they bring over certain titles. 



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Soundwave on 28 March 2014
famousringo said:
Ka-pi96 said:
But smartphone games aren't very good. Why people. WHY!?


Remember all that disruption talk in the heyday of the Wii? Remember how it starts?

Crappy products for non-consumers.


The difference though is no one needs a Wii so it was easy to ditch once people had their fun with it and moved on. 

A smartphone/tablet are central to most teenagers and adults' day to day (heck, minute to minute) lives. Take someone's smartphone away from them for even an hour and see how much they freak out. 

So if they always have a smartphone in their pocket, they'll always have access to these games, that's why I don't see them going anywhere. Especially when the price tag (free to 99 cents) is such an impulse buy. 



LiquorandGunFun on 28 March 2014
PullusPardus said:
LiquorandGunFun said:
wow they have low standards.


yeah Flappy bird is totally better than all the awesome games they get.

I wouldnt know, i didnt buy that stupid shit.



 

famousringo on 28 March 2014
Soundwave said:
famousringo said:
Ka-pi96 said:
But smartphone games aren't very good. Why people. WHY!?


Remember all that disruption talk in the heyday of the Wii? Remember how it starts?

Crappy products for non-consumers.


The difference though is no one needs a Wii so it was easy to ditch once people had their fun with it and moved on.

A smartphone/tablet are central to most teenagers and adults' day to day (heck, minute to minute) lives. Take someone's smartphone away from them for even an hour and see how much they freak out.

So if they always have a smartphone in their pocket, they'll always have access to these games, that's why I don't see them going anywhere. Especially when the price tag (free to 99 cents) is such an impulse buy.

Not trying to imply that smartphone games will go away at all. The typical trend is to first seize new customers, then take "crappy" customers, then encroach on the high end users. The Wii failed on that final step, for reasons which have been beaten to death and don't need to be discussed here.

Disruption isn't inevitable, but it's a powerful market force, and there's a good chance that as the mobile game market matures it will grow to satisfy gaming enthusiasts.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.