No. I don't think anybody buys a smart phone only for gaming. After all, you're limited to touch games unless you bring some kind of controller with you and if you're willing to do that you might as well bring a separate device with better selection of games on (not that all smart phone games are bad). Unless its an Xperia Play which has a slide out game pad. I'd totally buy an updated version of one of those. I bought my phone for smart phone things. I use it for organization, web browsing, videos, email, viewing documents and basically anything I can use my laptop for. I do play emulated games on but my selection is limited to genres that can be done with on screen controls. Classic RPG's work really well and shooters/bullet hell games work surprisingly well too cause all you really do is move and shoot.
Mr.Mattress said:
Of course, people can and do play games on their Smartphone, but when you went into, say, a Verizon store, you weren't picking Smartphones based on things like "Graphics", "CPU's", "GPU's", and other things we take into consideration when buying Consoles/PCs
Uh, I do. A lot of people buy phones based on what specs they have. Its the same as buying a pc, some people don't care and want a phone other reasons but a lot of people want the most updated specs. The mobile market moves the same as the pc market. The clock speeds, number of cores, and ram used in phones increases pretty consistently every year and with that comes games and apps that utilize the hardware. Like I said I don't think a lot of people buy phones to replace their handhelds but since most people have their phones with them all the time, they make more convenient gaming devices. Being a man, its not socially acceptable for me to carry a purse around so I'm limited to my pockets and don't really have room for a vita or 3ds so I do think about gaming when I buy a device, its just not the only reason I'll buy a smart phone
