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think-man on 12 May 2016

Smart phones/ PC browser * you might want to edit your title.



 

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vivster on 13 May 2016
Kirin_gaming said:
Woah

Smart device revenue has more than quadrupled, and MMO has almost quintupled compared to their 2012 figures .I guess Smartphones really are the new handhelds, you get a big return for a very small investment.Also, it's really impressive how a revision to a game can completely change its luck, which was the case for FFXIV.

I think a lot of this also has to do with the fact that traditional SE games lend themselves perfectly to mobile devices and mobile play. They already have my money for all classic FF and DQ games on Android and I'm eagerly waiting for the localization of DQ7 and 10 so I can throw even more money at them.

If they release the 3DS version of DQ11 on mobile as well they would make even more serious cash and me very happy.



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Kerotan on 13 May 2016
Intrinsic said:
Kerotan said:

We don't need 3 separate consoles.  so many people miss out on games because of 3 separate consoles.  2 is more than enough. Nintendo proving they can't handle it either the last few years.  They should focus all their resources on making games for mobile,  other consoles and pc.  

If you ask me, we don't even need two. One is enough. But two is necessary to keep them honest. 

Same here.  1 console platform and 1 PC platform will do the job.  



Lawlight on 13 May 2016

So smartphone revenue includes PC browser?



LurkerJ on 13 May 2016

Go smartphones! Go browsers!



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Intrinsic on 13 May 2016
Lawlight said:
So smartphone revenue includes PC browser?

apparently. 



Swordmasterman on 13 May 2016
Intrinsic said:
Kerotan said:

We don't need 3 separate consoles.  so many people miss out on games because of 3 separate consoles.  2 is more than enough. Nintendo proving they can't handle it either the last few years.  They should focus all their resources on making games for mobile,  other consoles and pc.  

If you ask me, we don't even need two. One is enough. But two is necessary to keep them honest. 

We don't need any at all, we can make our own consoles.



Intrinsic on 13 May 2016
Swordmasterman said:
Intrinsic said:

If you ask me, we don't even need two. One is enough. But two is necessary to keep them honest. 

We don't need any at all, we can make our own consoles.

God pls no. 



drdante on 13 May 2016
RolStoppable said:
LurkerJ said:
Go smartphones! Go browsers!

Go home.

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crissindahouse on 13 May 2016

Well, HD gaming still grows as well. Tomb Raider didn't release on PS4 or the numbers would be higher for HD gaming and not to forget, their smartphone revenue would be less if they wouldn't be so well known from traditional gaming.

Without Square on consoles, their smartphone games would surely sell less as well. Same with EA and some other devs. 

I don't really see a big problem here. It only shows that they might need more employees for both markets and not that they have to reduce their workforce for HD gaming as if that wouldn't be important anymore.