Why Mobile Gaming Will Not Kill Consoles

VideoGameGeezer on why home-console gaming will be just fine, despite the formidable threat posed by the increasing popularity of mobile gaming.
With the fact that you can play every mobile game on multiple devices, mobile gaming has no real exclusives. In addition, the best games on Facebook, Apples AppStore and Googles PlayStore are scaled down copies of other games that are not as pleasant, comprehensive and/or well produced as their home console counterparts.

[randomass171]

People thought it would?

[rdgneoz3]

It won't kill consoles at all, though it will kill some developers.

[randomass171]

Hopefully not any really good ones.

[TheSaint]

Good devs will never fail, that's why they are good devs.

[Magicite]

Yet its gonna do some damage still.
So far as trend goes, this is worst (judging by hardware sales) console generation.
PS4+X1+WiiU must sell at least 300 million units by the end of this gen, to prove that we have steady progress.

[DualWielding]

This generation would be the first time the console market shrinks but that's just because the Wii became a fad and brought lot of people in that were never gonna stay.... about 200 million units among the 3 consoles would be enough for the console industry to be considered healthy

[BattleAxe]

"Why Mobile Gaming Will Not Kill Consoles"

I think we're way beyond that argument at this point.

[pdblacknoir]

i actually had a series of debates on the topic

[gamerfan0909]

Mobile gaming is getting better and more powerful faster than I would've ever guessed 2 or 3 years ago. I don't think it'll kill consoles in the next 5 years, but if the tech keeps evolving the way it has been then we could be that much closer to Iphones playing legit AAA titles on mobile in the next decade. It won't happen any time soon, but mobile gaming is something to keep an eye on. It's cheap, has big players in it that have the capital to make it work, and it can attract 11 year old little jimmy all the way down to 65 year old jessica the grand ma.

[DualWielding]

but I don't see any way around the control issue, touch is not enough for hardcore gaming, putting analog sticks is not practical on a phone, and using a wireless controller with a phone/tablet as a screen is not practical because screens are too small

[thehobbyist]

I doubt mobile tech will evolve to a point of killing console gaming. Since GPU's are getting bigger again instead of smaller. So unless you want a phone the size of the WiiU tablet you aren't gonna rival console graphics(Or even computational power) with mobile.

[SuperBlunt]

Omg why would you choose a thumbnail pic like that?

[TransientDreamer]

This conversation is still being had in 2014?

[edqe]

Is it "mobile gaming" if I attach my phone or table to TV and play games with a controller or even mouse+keyboard?

Mobile devices has already some excellent games like Baldur's Gate series and King of Dragon Pass. I think there is no better RPGs available for any consoles.

The article/blog post looks very shortsighted to me ...

[CrowbaitBob]

I think in the future we may end up looking back at dedicated gaming devices, whether mobile or not, as being rather antiquated.

It's not so much a matter of mobile gaming killing consoles, but rather technology advancing to the point where our methods of accessing entertainment and information transcend anything we can even imagine right now.

[pdblacknoir]

how can you say that? the best RPG's are on mobiles?

[DoggyBiscuit]

Even though they a lot of games that core gamers could enjoy the most successful games are the one casual gamers like which make mobile games look bad, the only way I see mobile games taking over is if Sony, M$ and Nintendo decide to go that rout

[eworthington0]

Because mobile games are lame.
Although I am playing one game right now. Wild goat 2. It is horrible.
But its amusing.

[TheSaint]

Why would a gaming medium that is on a 4 inch screen kill a medium that is on a 40 inch screen?

[mysteryraz11]

They arent powerful enough too, too many different phones and tablets at different levels its to hard to develop games on such platforms

[kingPoS]

Because a majority of console games aren't nickle n dime fests. I like progressing through a game, not paying my way through it.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[Agent_hitman]

Console is very different from mobile gaming

[KinjoTakemura]

Will youtube videos kill the movie industry?

[CrowbaitBob]

The same reason board games won't kill consoles. Completely different applications.

The whole reason so many crappy mobile games make so much money is because they are very good at killing time. That's literally the only thing a mobile game has to achieve.

Time wasters have been around since the dawn of time. They have a purpose but they will never replace deeper forms of entertainment.