"But both companies report lower worldwide sales with rise of smartphones"
Why the hell do people keep comparing consoles to smartphones? People are buying smartphones because they're useful for a lot of things and really they're the only kind of phone you can even get now. Nobody is passing on a games console to play Cut the Rope.
@clyde46: Xbox 360/XB1 are the only systems that showed an increase from last year.
"Microsoft reported 11.6 million game systems sold, a 16% increase. Microsoftlaunched the Xbox One in November in the United States and other countries."
It's going to see another increase in June and Sept this year. Will probably surpass Wii U before the holidays even start.
"But both companies report lower worldwide sales with rise of smartphones"
Why the hell do people keep comparing consoles to smartphones? People are buying smartphones because they're useful for a lot of things and really they're the only kind of phone you can even get now. Nobody is passing on a games console to play Cut the Rope.
Considering you can emulate PSP, DS and earlier platforms on modern smartphones with enhanced graphics, smartphones will eventually chew into even 3DS as smartphones become increasingly powerful and emulators become available. On top of that, streaming services (i.e. from PC) are becoming readily available on smartphones. 3DS does not have access to such technology, while PS Vita is a dead horse that won't benefit much from PS-Now.
The two worst assumptions gamers can make about smartphone gaming are:
They can only play smartphone games.
Smarthphone hardware is weak.
People WILL pass on handhelds and game consoles if their smartphone becomes multiple game consoles all in one package, with graphical enhancements on top as icing on the cake.
"But both companies report lower worldwide sales with rise of smartphones"
Why the hell do people keep comparing consoles to smartphones? People are buying smartphones because they're useful for a lot of things and really they're the only kind of phone you can even get now. Nobody is passing on a games console to play Cut the Rope.
Considering you can emulate PSP, DS and earlier platforms on modern smartphones with enhanced graphics, smartphones will eventually chew into even 3DS as smartphones become increasingly powerful and emulators become available. On top of that, streaming services (i.e. from PC) are becoming readily available on smartphones. 3DS does not have access to such technology, while PS Vita is a dead horse that won't benefit much from PS-Now.
The two worst assumptions gamers can make about smartphone gaming are:
They can only play smartphone games.
Smarthphone hardware is weak.
People WILL pass on handhelds and game consoles if their smartphone becomes multiple game consoles all in one package, with graphical enhancements on top as icing on the cake.
With imprecise touch screen controls and a 1 hour battery life. What you are saying is that smartphones have to become handhelds to compete with handhelds. We are still many years removed from that situation.
OMG only 7 million for Sony. I thought the Wii U was doomed and Nintendo was doomed. Looks like all 3 are not selling. If you sell only twice as fast as a dead console then this will be the end.
1. You can attach console controllers to smartphones.
2. 3DS's battery life is quite bad as well.
Smartphones are already becoming handhelds. Regardless of whether you want to think they are or aren't competing, the competition has already started since last gen, and this gen's handheld sales are eating the full brunt of that competition. The smartphone is actually quite similar to PC from a handheld perspective. It's highly customisable, and nearly everyone already owns a smartphone.
1. You can attach console controllers to smartphones.
2. 3DS's battery life is quite bad as well.
Smartphones are already becoming handhelds. Regardless of whether you want to think they are or aren't competing, the competition has already started since last gen, and this gen's handheld sales are eating the full brunt of that competition. The smartphone is actually quite similar to PC from a handheld perspective. It's highly customisable, and nearly everyone already owns a smartphone.
I don't see mobile phone manufacturers care about gaming enough to standardise good controls on the phone across multiple brands, or to all support and push the same controllers. Not in the near future I mean. Eventually games and phones will be injected into our bloodstream.
So you think controllers for a mobile phone are (becoming) popular? Their userbase IS gigantic. If only 5% use the same type of control scheme that could form a userbase for full priced handheld games. I mean that is like 100 million users.
1. You can attach console controllers to smartphones.
2. 3DS's battery life is quite bad as well.
Smartphones are already becoming handhelds. Regardless of whether you want to think they are or aren't competing, the competition has already started since last gen, and this gen's handheld sales are eating the full brunt of that competition. The smartphone is actually quite similar to PC from a handheld perspective. It's highly customisable, and nearly everyone already owns a smartphone.
I don't see mobile phone manufacturers care about gaming enough to standardise good controls on the phone across multiple brands, or to all support and push the same controllers. Not in the near future I mean. Eventually of course, all games will be fed directly to the brains.
That doesn't matter though. Customisation is a key feature of smartphones. There are already peripherals designed specifically for gaming available: http://www.phonearena.com/news/10-game-controllers-for-smartphones-and-tablets_id39901
That doesn't matter though. Customisation is a key feature of smartphones. There are already peripherals designed specifically for gaming available: http://www.phonearena.com/news/10-game-controllers-for-smartphones-and-tablets_id39901
lol@ smartphones replacing handhelds. Mobile games SUCK! All those games with great graphics but terrible everything else. I can't ever get even halfway through those awful games. Also, even though my phone can emulate the DS at full speed, it still sucks compared to using an actual DS.
So you think controllers for a mobile phone are (becoming) popular? Their userbase IS gigantic. If only 5% use the same type of control scheme that could form a userbase for full priced handheld games. I mean that is like 100 million users.
I think the regular console controller scheme is already the most popular. Of course, there are various iterations of it, but that is fine. The underlying control scheme is the same, so all those different controllers become similar to all the different kinds of gaming mice and keyboard available for PC. Further, on PC there is nothing stopping you from using a controller to play against keyboard, Oculus Rift with gaming gun, and now some form of Control VR that lets you control your fingers. It only logically follows that there should be nothing on smartphones to prevent you from playing using one control scheme with another control scheme.
Also, even though my phone can emulate the DS at full speed, it still sucks compared to using an actual DS.
And why is that? Because the emulated DS/PSP on a mobile phone run at 3 times the resolution with even FXAA smoothing the 3D models? Don't talk about controls, since as mentioned in my previous posts there are plenty of controllers available to someone who wants to game on a smartphone.
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