Got Game? Videogame Industry Turns to Mobile

Big publisher's Such as for example:


Electronic Arts is in a particularly precarious position, because it must grow its mobile profits without cannibalizing sales of $60 packaged games.
Its response is a strategy EA calls “fewer, bigger, better.”
It’s slashing the number of new console and PC games it releases each year from 67 in 2009 to just 22 this year. Next year EA will release just 14 packaged game titles, but it’s doubling down on digital, with more than 30 mobile and social games, building on its library of over 500 mobile titles. 

from 67
down to 22
now down to 14

for game console and PC

but it increased to with more than 30 mobile and social games !

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take note of this in my opinion, that it is not  a bad thing for gamer's ,just as on the same token it is also not a bad thing for the market :


Many of EA’s mobile games are free, with the option of buying extras or making in-app purchases, others cost 99 cents or $1.99. And the company said the range of low cost price options aims to appeal to the billion-plus potential gamers with smartphones. 


“Mobile games are as profitable as console games,” EA’s Vice President of “All Play” Nick Earl said. “The costs are actually less and the revenues can be as much if not greater than a console product.”
Earl said that EA is seeing an increase in what it calls “conversion rates”—the number of people who are paying to play. In addition, he said, the average amount that people spend has been increasing.

EA’s mobile business is small but growing: Revenue grew 59 percent to $88 million last quarter, driven by a 120 percent increase from smartphones and tablets. Many of EA’s hit mobile titles are based on popular console games, like "Madden," "The Simpsons," and "FIfa."
The goal is to create cross-platform play, where people play a game on mobile devices during the day and then pick up the game on consoles at night. The idea is that if people can play across devices, they’ll keep buying traditional games, and they’ll stay hooked on EA titles, rather than defecting to mobile-only brands like "Angry Birds."

could this be a big thing for all three  console companies going forward?  

in my opinion yes it will be, example

Nintendo with 2 screen dynamic play with not only using just the game pad, but also the WiiU combined with the 3DS and 3DSxl also as yet another option for Nintendo.
Microsoft with surface an Touch combined with the xbox360 and the next xbox
and Sony with their playstation 3 and playstation Vita and xperia mobile and other smartphones and Tablets.

the trends combined with Apple's iOS, and with Googles Android OS prompted quite a bit to this trend moving forward into the game console market. This may make some upset but the fact the area is such a large market to expand into for game's is really a good thing in my opinion. 

more choices for the gamer to choose from    

more choices for the gamer to choose from

Less choices to choose from. Quality of games is already mediocre as is. Now these companies will start focusing on glorified flash games for absurd prices. That doesn't sound like more choices to me.

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more choices for the gamer to choose from

Less choices to choose from. Quality of games is already mediocre as is. Now these companies will start focusing on glorified flash games for absurd prices. That doesn't sound like more choices to me.

the point being is the hardware in mobile devices are quite a bit more robust, than it was from 7 to 8 years ago, one thing i keep hearing is " glorified flash games" which is not the case Anymore really the point being even Nintendo is using the Unity 3D game engine for the WiiU. which is the very same game engine that is used and in mobile smartphones an Tablets.

joeorc

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more choices for the gamer to choose from

Less choices to choose from. Quality of games is already mediocre as is. Now these companies will start focusing on glorified flash games for absurd prices. That doesn't sound like more choices to me.

the point being is the hardware in mobile devices are quite a bit more robust, than it was from 7 to 8 years ago, one thing i keep hearing is " glorified flash games" which is not the case Anymore really the point being even Nintendo is using the Unity 3D game engine for the WiiU. which is the very same game engine that is used and in mobile smartphones an Tablets.

Maybe for ACTUAL hand held consoles (3DS, PSVIta), but mobile devices like iphones/androids will never have anything more than glorified flash games. Mini games. 

I hate mobile games, if I want to play a game on the go, Ill set up my main computer much like OnLive and stream the games to a ****ty laptop on the go

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more choices for the gamer to choose from

Less choices to choose from. Quality of games is already mediocre as is. Now these companies will start focusing on glorified flash games for absurd prices. That doesn't sound like more choices to me.

the point being is the hardware in mobile devices are quite a bit more robust, than it was from 7 to 8 years ago, one thing i keep hearing is " glorified flash games" which is not the case Anymore really the point being even Nintendo is using the Unity 3D game engine for the WiiU. which is the very same game engine that is used and in mobile smartphones an Tablets.

Maybe for ACTUAL hand held consoles (3DS, PSVIta), but mobile devices like iphones/androids will never have anything more than glorified flash games. Mini games. 

 


Think about this for a sec, you now have  3rd party companies making Game pad controllers for your smartphone that also works on Tablets, Game controllers now get Native support on an OS level in mobile devices, why do people thinK Rockstar game's is putting more of their iP's such as GrandTheft Auto 3, and Max payne and soon to be vice city, these both even have better upscaled resolution and frame rates on them than when they came out on the xbox and PS2.


It is very simple, to make more Money, but on the same token is to make sure the game offered is not gimped. if Rockstar did not care about that they could have left non  external Game pad support out of the game for mobile for the game if it was all about the money but Rockstar did not.


which brings me to my next point, if these development and publishers want to make sure they have quality products for you to purchase, many of them will not let you down, even though the platform may change, the software quality does not have to, when the Hardware is not as weak as many people seem to think.


for instance both the 3DS and PSVita are both using Arm Processor's, which also is the very same type of chips these smartphones and Tablets are using, 3DS is Arm 11, while the PSVita uses Arm Cortex A9's. The simple point is today the handheld arena is no longer like it was from the start of the PSP/DS. Today when you have the exact same type of Hardware in your smartphones and Tablets as such as the very same one's that is in your dedicated Game Handheld game systems, it was only a matter of time not if the SmartPhone market was going to encroach into the game handheld space, it just so happens it was pushed faster than many companies would have liked, but it does not mean these companies did not make plans for such when the Push was going to take place, remember the Dedicated PDA market? and what happened to it? there is still PDA's made even today and used, but for the most part its market is 2nd for points of use where smartphones are the prime use handheld product. 


the same is happening right now, the smartphone and a tablet  being used more often with the #1 shifting software on those platforms are "games" its expected to increase its prime use for such a function for free time. thats what the entertainment companies are also trying to compete for, is your time of use on any given time of the day. More and more  users are choosing their smartphone or tablet for on the go gaming that is just the reality of the situation, Nintendo is not even immune to such migration for the simple fact that today the smartphone market share is the lions share of the handheld market. Nintendo sell 19 million handheld 3ds systems in 10 months. that is a fantastic number , but once again many 3rd party Developers are going where the much larger market share for their projects are being shifted to, the good thing is the 3ds and the PSVita uses the same chipsets, but on the downside the mobile devices will be the priority not the 2nd , Game Handheld's will not go away because there is a demand for them in the multiple millions, but they are no longer the market leaders they used to be. all three companies know this Microsoft, Sony both have platform expansion into non game handhelds for the xbox brand and the Playstation brand, Nintendo will follow soon enough.

Nothing released so far on mobile (READ Iphone/ANDROID) has proven to be of quality. I do not see that happening in the future either, especially since Angry Birds sells, quality doesn't. A glorified flash game based upon plenty of free internet games.

Not to mention Im not gonna buy an accessory just to play ****ty versions of normal games on a phone device. Also speaking of tablet, I wish I could find a comic that I recently saw that describes it, but I'll just type it out for you.

Person gets a tablet, and they're happy with their purchase.
Then the person gets a keyboard and they're still so happy with their purchase
then they get a mouse and they're so happy with their tablet
Then they get a stand and they're still happy with it.

But wait, what was the point in doing all that, when you could get a laptop or a desktop? Or in the on the go case, a PS VIta or a 3DS. Also having to solely rely on touch screen gaming, that's a big no no. That's not quality, and it will never be quality. EVen the best of "games" (mini games) i've played on my itouch were mediocre due to the touch screen controls. They will never compare to any system, whether hand held or main console or PC.


Also I may not like the VITA, but I'll defend the Vita before I ever defend the ****ty cash in's that appear on mobile devices.

Electronic Arts is in a particularly precarious position, because it must grow its mobile profits without cannibalizing sales of $60 packaged games. Its response is a strategy EA calls “fewer, bigger, better.” It’s slashing the number of new console and PC games it releases each year from 67 in 2009 to just 22 this year. Next year EA will release just 14 packaged game titles, but it’s doubling down on digital, with more than 30 mobile and social games, building on its library of over 500 mobile titles.  from 67 down to 22 now down to 14 for game console and PC but it increased to with more than 30 mobile and social games !

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Nothing released so far on mobile (READ Iphone/ANDROID) has proven to be of quality. I do not see that happening in the future either, especially since Angry Birds sells, quality doesn't. A glorified flash game based upon plenty of free internet games.

Not to mention Im not gonna buy an accessory just to play ****ty versions of normal games on a phone device. Also speaking of tablet, I wish I could find a comic that I recently saw that describes it, but I'll just type it out for you.

Person gets a tablet, and they're happy with their purchase.
Then the person gets a keyboard and they're still so happy with their purchase
then they get a mouse and they're so happy with their tablet
Then they get a stand and they're still happy with it.

But wait, what was the point in doing all that, when you could get a laptop or a desktop? Or in the on the go case, a PS VIta or a 3DS. Also having to solely rely on touch screen gaming, that's a big no no. That's not quality, and it will never be quality. EVen the best of "games" (mini games) i've played on my itouch were mediocre due to the touch screen controls. They will never compare to any system, whether hand held or main console or PC.


Also I may not like the VITA, but I'll defend the Vita before I ever defend the ****ty cash in's that appear on mobile devices.

what i am tying to say is that the companies that make Hard core franchises are not going to up and quit making then as long as there is millions of people willing to purchase the games. Just because they do not sell like gang busters like Angry birds does not mean there is no game's on iOS and Android that are not same quality as their game console counter parts since the hardware in the mobile phones and tablets are quite strong. the smartphones and tablets chipsets right now can support DirectX 11.0+ not the gimped ver but a full desktop full release. the unreal engine for game consoles in its complete form can run on these new chips and run really well.


having an external game pad that you can use is not anything we have not used to enhance the TV for years the TV has not have a game pad that came with your TV, now with online game distribution services for smart TV's its not a matter of if, only a matter of when.

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