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irstupid said:
Soundwave said:

Is Fire Emblem even doing that great? Doesn't really seem to be charting that high. 

It's #10 for combined.

That means it is the 10th highest grossing mobile game for this quarter out of all mobile games.

I find that quite good!



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Soundwave said:

 

Mobile gaming continues to grow bigger and bigger, topping last year's Q1 2016 by a whopping 53%, just a shade under $12 billion in revenue. 

Top games by revenue:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1360357

When people are still saying this has no effect on portable gaming or other sectors, they are crazy by this point. 

I guess Monster Strike is the new hotness? Fate/Grand Order is apparently Japan exclusive ... yet it's no.2 overall, that shows how crazy Japan is for smartphone games. 

Portable gaming, deffinatly. Other sectors? Where? The PS4 Xone are doing far better than their previous itteration by this point. If they loose any players that is down mostly to PC gaming. Mobile gaming is the perfect casual crap-trap ( I know, I know a very small percentage is actually quality) but I doubt its hurting the core gaming segment in any significant way. Hell we could argue that its the other way around ie. helping people realise that gaming can be awesome.



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hunter_alien said:
Soundwave said:

 

Mobile gaming continues to grow bigger and bigger, topping last year's Q1 2016 by a whopping 53%, just a shade under $12 billion in revenue. 

Top games by revenue:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1360357

When people are still saying this has no effect on portable gaming or other sectors, they are crazy by this point. 

I guess Monster Strike is the new hotness? Fate/Grand Order is apparently Japan exclusive ... yet it's no.2 overall, that shows how crazy Japan is for smartphone games. 

Portable gaming, deffinatly. Other sectors? Where? The PS4 Xone are doing far better than their previous itteration by this point. If they loose any players that is down mostly to PC gaming. Mobile gaming is the perfect casual crap-trap ( I know, I know a very small percentage is actually quality) but I doubt its hurting the core gaming segment in any significant way. Hell we could argue that its the other way around ie. helping people realise that gaming can be awesome.

Are you sure about that?

 



tak13 said:
hunter_alien said:

Portable gaming, deffinatly. Other sectors? Where? The PS4 Xone are doing far better than their previous itteration by this point. If they loose any players that is down mostly to PC gaming. Mobile gaming is the perfect casual crap-trap ( I know, I know a very small percentage is actually quality) but I doubt its hurting the core gaming segment in any significant way. Hell we could argue that its the other way around ie. helping people realise that gaming can be awesome.

Are you sure about that?

 

As far as I know they are both tracking ahead of their previous itterations. Or did the Xone fall behind the 360? If thats so, IMO even that could be explained by the far more potent sales of the PS4. There is an obvious consumption barrier for core consoles, and the 2 will obviously canibalize eachother.



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It's just a sad way to play, and a unhealthy habit.



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Soundwave said:
Green098 said:

Nintendo was smart to start taking a share in that mobile revenue with low budget watered down spin offs of their IPs, glad to see Fire Emblem Heroes and Pokémon Go charting, that revenue can go into making some actual games for dedicated gaming hardware.

Is Fire Emblem even doing that great? Doesn't really seem to be charting that high. 

It's still doing some 100k a day, worldwide. That's pretty good, in the long run.



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hunter_alien said:
tak13 said:

Are you sure about that?

 

As far as I know they are both tracking ahead of their previous itterations. Or did the Xone fall behind the 360? If thats so, IMO even that could be explained by the far more potent sales of the PS4. There is an obvious consumption barrier for core consoles, and the 2 will obviously canibalize eachother.

They're neck to neck, xb1 should soon fall behind but it will fight back with scorpio, it depends on its price! Although, when kinect era comes  in the comparison... You know...

Anyway, the rest of what you have said so far is right, especially that consumption barrier comment is astute, ( anyone should take into account this in their sales prediction ).

However, do you think that xbox/ps doesn't have casual gamers too,  that mobile gaming might have stolen?



RolStoppable said:
Make up your mind, Soundwave.

You can't say good riddance to casuals because they don't spend any money on games and on the same day say that casuals spend so much money on mobile gaming that it's negatively affecting portable gaming. Or does this revenue count as hardcore gaming now?

He is seeming so inconsistent...

In defense of  him though, casual spend all these high sums of money on in-app purchases, if you ask them to expend 40$ to buy a mobile game they won't... Look Super mario Run situation, for just 10$..

So indeed good riddance to casuals because they're absurdly erratic! haha



Half of those games are Japanese.



I had no intention of ever buying Super Mario Run but damn I had enough fun playing the free world and now I'm considering.