Now, I know this entire feature was just to stir up controversy. I understand this, and I guess you can say I'm taking that bait.

But that's beside the point.

Dedicated Handheld video game systems will not die out. Period. There is good reason too, as there will always be die hard, gamers that will not settle to play only phone games. Me, having no phone, is PERFECTLY satisfied with my 3DS. I would play a 3DS over a phone game any day. There's really no comparison over the level of quality between Phone games, and dedicated video game system games.

There was an excellent post I read from another forum explaining exactly why Handheld gaming will never die out. It's the exact same reason High quality, SLR cameras. Now, we all know that smartphones nowadays have these "supposedly" Beefy, epic cameras. But, they will never, NEVER be as good as the really high quality cameras. In fact, SLR camera's sales have even GONE UP since the release of the smartphone. This is most probably going to be the same, or similar case for gaming. Smartphone games will never have the level of quality a dedicated system has.

Before people tell me "Ungh, you never even played a phonegame, how do you know?" Then there's a simple answer for that. I have. I have played a phone game, and not just one, at least 10 or 12. I've played all the popular phone games (Angry birds, Temple run, Fruit ninja...) and in my opinion (and just my opinion,) they suck. They kept me entertained for just 5 or 10 minutes before I just stopped. There's really nothing new about these games. I mean, Angry birds is very, very similar to Crush the Castle (I think that's the name, correct me if I'm wrong.)

Now, I'm not saying that the phone games are BAD, or complete crap... they are good at what they do. But that's it. They are the kind of games that you will play for 5 minutes on the sh*tter. When I want to play a game, I want a long, complex game, with lots of different elements, and varied gameplay. I don't want to slash watermelons over, and over, and over again. I don't want to NUMB my brain, I want to ENGAGE my brain.

Now, I'll put it out there, I'm a fan of Tetris. Now before some of you accuse me of liking it just because it's not on a phone, I'll tell you why I like tetris. When you place a block down in the matrix, It completely alters the field you are working with. So when the next block comes, you have to adapt to your surroundings, and find away to stack the blocks so they don't make holes. Games like fruit ninja, and temple run don't do this. In fruit ninja for example, you just chop fruit. Another fruit pops up, you chop it. Another? Chop it. Same thing, over and over again. Temple run, you repeatedly jump over the same obstacles, over and over again. It's just so monotonous. Angry birds, is the same thing. You just launch birds at random structures. I guess it's a bit different, in the fact that there are a whole bunch of different levels, but there isn't much changing. You just fling birds. Maybe an exploding bird here... maybe a different bird here... but in the big picture, it's just flinging something at another thing.

But anyways... that''s my two cents on the big debate over mobile games. Point is, there shouldn't be a debate. They are two different things, and one thing (phone games) will never be the other.

-Blobsey