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A Look Ahead at GDC: It’s Mobile vs. Consoles in Fight for Game Developers’ Attention

If San Francisco appears to be even geekier than usual this week, there’s a reason: The annual Game Developers Conference is taking over the Moscone Center today through Friday.
AllThingsD will be there, and we’re keeping an eye on two questions in particular: How is the business of mobile games changing, and how are the makers of consoles and other physical media responding to mobile’s ascendance?

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majiebeast4049d ago (Edited 4049d ago )

I really hope this whole mobile games boom is temporary. Cause if it continues it could lead to another industry crash like in the 80s.

iGAM3R-VIII4049d ago (Edited 4049d ago )

Mobile games will NEVER be near as to console games. you will never get the same power as a console, the same graphics, the same fps, and the same quality, and screen size. Until I see a 47" phone with a seperate controller and 8GB of ram and the same graphics card as the PS4/XBox 720, then I will consider it, but for now the mobile gaming industry will never out due the console game industry and the exclusives for the consoles

caseh4049d ago

I wouldn't underestimate mobile games just yet, the specs on phones like the Xperia Z and the S4 show they are more than capable of some impressive stuff.

Nothing to rival what a high-end PC or console is capable of but this is a device that is less than 1/2 a cm in depth, has a 5inch screen but its packing 2-4gb RAM and a quad-core processor.

Mobile gaming has a market, these games are likely to hit a much wider audience simply due to the fact everyone has a mobile these days.

Whether or not we get some real kick-ass games is another matter but there are several that I play at the moment that have had a serious amount of time invested into them, and i've not paid a penny to play them.

CaulkSlap4049d ago

That's not really the concern. The problem is the mobiles eating away so much of the market that developers can no longer make a profit on the big budget games we love. Mobiles are getting quite capable of satisfying a basic casual gamer. Like it or not consoles rely on those people to support them.

guitarded774049d ago

It's just easy and cheap to develop for those other platforms, so you have a lot of individuals and small teams developing for tablets, PC and phone. If they showed the monetary investment for each platform, the numbers would probably reflect a different story. Remember, you can make stats say whatever you want them to say by asking a different question.

ATiElite4048d ago

is it just me or did anyone else notice the HUGE commitment of developers to the PC/Mac platforms?

It's amazing how "Some" people who know ZERO about PC Gaming wanna bash it but then all these charts show something completely different.

I mean if PC Gaming was such a waste then why on Earth would SO MANY devs be focused on it?

PC Gaming is where it's at!

imXify4049d ago

This chart means nothing. Only the content counts.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai10h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken9h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye8h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken6h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno4h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop3h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger4h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer3h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz1492h ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra30303h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris2h ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.

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