Poll: Smarphones vs. handhelds

[Tilly]

Well Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is about to come out on the New 3DS. I think the fact that nothing like that would ever be made exclusively for smartphones pretty much answers the question.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I play games on my iPhone, 3DSXL, PC, and WiiU. There is a place for all platforms.

 

[Godhead]

As long as smartphones have touchscreens, there will always be a market for handheld devices with actual buttons and such.

 

[lechat]

too many people complaining about touch screens. this is what i use:

Beat that handhelds.

The problem is in game content not playability or power or battery life.
I have literally spent hours searching the android market for something worth playing and it is either mountains of shovelware garbage or games that consist of doing nothing but clicking a few buttons and then paying money for the privilege not to click those buttons.
I don't know what the apple store is like but googleplay just makes it worse. Want to know what the top grossing games are? fremium. most popular? Another bejewled clone or whatever game you can play for the duration it takes you to have a shit. Noone is doing quality control and it doesn't matter because games worse than what used to be made in a week by a decent flash developer are making more money than AAA xbox titles because of blatent skinner boxing and morons not instantly deleting junk and 1 starring it the second the see it has near zero game content.

 

[CommanderZx2]

I think the smart phone market has already been ruined via the reliance on free to play microtransaction games. Now a days no one wants to pay a decent price for a game on a smart phone, therefore the only way to be profitable is to make it free and inhibit the players with additional costs within the game.

Due to this behaviour of the majority of consumers on the mobile market you will rarely ever get good games on the phone, as they must all be modified to work within the free to play and time wasting gameplay.

 

[duwenbasden]

Something I think when people mention smart phone games not being good without buttons. Smartphones seem to be getting bigger, wider screens lately. There's plenty of phones out there that could devote a little space to a virtual set of buttons akin to a gamebpy detour and still have plenty of room for the game.

I have a Galaxy Note and I still can't comfortably play console games on it. It's the combination of thumb screen block, the impossible to mash d-pad, and button hunting every 5 seconds that did it in.