Game consoles have been the staple of the industry ever since the transition away from arcades, but the rise of smartphones and tablets in the past couple years is already having a major impact on how games are sold to people, and the future of consoles is hazy, some would argue. Certainly, Neil Young, CEO of mobile games developer ngmoco, is of the mindset that mobile could represent the future.
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At a showcase event in San Francisco this week, when asked if he views Nintendo as a competitor, Ngmoco CEO Neil Young had to pause and think.
The Nintendo market is like the Disney market. It's never going away. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.
Someone with a popular app trash talking a household name in gaming?
That's like a JV quarterback saying Drew Brees sucks.
It's no secret that Activision has largely ignored the fast growing mobile and social markets. It's an approach to the market IG's criticized before, and during a recent conversation with ngmoco founder and former EA Los Angeles exec Neil Young IG talked about the difficulties traditional publishers are facing in adapting to the mobile and social sectors.
Well activision does have bungie after the call of duty fruit drys up sooo.
In a few years when tablets have the horsepower to really scream and you add in a wireless controller, I could see it happening
BS. Tablets will not replace console any time soon. You can't put a tablet or phone in your living room and play games with family and friends. As long as that market exists consoles are not going anywhere. Same thing with televisions. You can put all the television shows on every device possible and people still want to by big wide screen televisions to watch their favourite movies on. What are you going to do when you and your family want to watch a movie? Hold up you phone while they look over your shoulder? Prop up the tablet on the coffee table and squint at the screen? Please.
I think the Wii U controller and it's streaming abilities will prove more useful and cost efficient. Tablets are just weak laptops, and laptops are weak desktops. I can't imagine this ever not being the case, streaming is needed for any serious business to be done on a tablet.
No they wont
The closest thing we will get is the Wii U controller and that's about it