Opinions on The Future of Mobile

Gamasutra's usual weekly Q&A has industry responses about the future of mobile gaming. From the article: "The interesting thing about the prospects for cell phone gaming is that we as an industry do not yet exist in the hearts and minds of the consumer. When asked about mobile games, the average person on the street does not yet know they can play games on their phone, and the ones that do confess to playing 'a few card games or something like that'. There have been early successes and anomalous successes in mobile, but hardly anyone has done anything of sustainable consequence to the consumer, or the marketplace. -John Szeder, Mofactor, Inc"

Comments

What ever happened...

[masterzora]

... to the days where cell phones had one function: making and taking phone calls?

Sure, some features of cell phones are good, some aren't, but I think that people are trying too hard to just add features to be different. I mean, do we really need cell phones that can take pictures, play music and games, and surf the Internet? Especially when such features are usually of low quality?

If I want mobile gaming, I'll grab the latest handheld from Nintendo. Their games are much better than anything I've ever seen on a cell phone, not to mention that they won't drain the batteries on my cell phone, causing me to miss a vital call when the batteries run out.