My parents own Smart Phones, they DON'T play Video Games. I own a smart phone, and I only have one game on it besides the one that are built in (Zynga Texas Hold' Em poker) and I rarely play that.

I tried to get into Mobile gaming, but the controlling for it is terrible. Downloaded Doom for mobile and played it, controls were horrible, couldn't get passed the 2nd level. Plus, how am I supposed to play Street Fighter on a mobile device?

Mobile devices are the plague of gaming. They are contributing to the simple minded syndrome that people are slowly turning into. Really, Flappy Bird is just about as simple minded as you can possibly get. How can someone just tap the screen and have fun??? Candy crush is another game that's just a rip off of Dr, Mario or Columns, and has people going crazy for their highest scores when it's all been done before. And, angry birds is another simplistic game, although humorous, but you can find superior games of them on any dedicated Handheld console.

Has anyone here ever played games on an iPhone before? My impression is that most of it would be shovelware casual stuff but I might be wrong.

There's some very decent stuff on there among things which are really meant for touch controls or at least well suited for them, but whenever it's emulating a style that's suited to physical controls, it shows it's inadequacy and becomes frustrating. Gyro controls I also never liked (on smartphones and especially tablets at least). You gotta love the prices, though.

You are single-handedly killing the handheld market. Thanks a lot.

The prices are also whats killing the gaming scene on the handhelds beyond the odd few anomalies.

People don't want to spend money on anything and someone or other is going to make a free-knock off anything expensive and popular. There's no real security on the mobile front, not that indie shops of any kind aren't tainted by derivative garbage. The one thing handhelds provide is a gaming environment... and buttons.

>Polygon
>Ben kuchera
>The numbers point the way


LoL can we adopt a ban site system like neogaf?

You are absolutely right, the whole store is a mess, that's why I never browse it and learn about stuff from elsewhere. I wasn't thinking of "prices" like 1$ or free though, nor the constant sales. Best stuff I have was 5$-15$.

"You gotta love the prices" sounded very shortsighted, I agree.

No buttons, not really a gaming device. Sorry

Yes, let's add insiderp to the black list as well!

Now, if you would so kindly show me how you are the one single handedly saving it. That or think before you speak next time.