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Multiplayer For Mobile Games - Are We There Yet?

Posted by simoniker on from the nearly dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its feature discussing whether multiplayer mobile phone gaming is genuinely an emerging trend. According to the piece: "For every mobile maven that claims that networked multiplayer is where mobile gaming must direct its energies, there are another two that point to the prohibitive costs, technical barriers, and unacceptable risks that currently stand between wide-spectrum multiplayer and reality." Isaac Babbs of Atlas Mobile frames the problems as "...device limitations and high data costs to the consumer. On many of today's networks, even a simple chess game could hit you for half an hour of airtime--and that's if you manage to make it through without the other player getting fed up and dropping or going into a tunnel and losing reception." Will mobile phone gaming ever take off in the States?

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  1. Will it ever take off? by ntr0py · · Score: 0, Troll

    If this article is right, it'll have to, otherwise multiplayer gaming is left to the console crowd, and we all know they can't do it right ;)