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"

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Re:Aware But Don't Care

[NanoGator]

Frankly, I wouldn't mind in the slightest if my cell phone offered a better gaming experience. Thing is, though, I'm not looking to replace my DS. Rather, my phone is with me at times when the rest of my toys aren't. Sometimes I find myself in a position with time to kill. It's for that reason I'm grateful that my phone has a net connection. Yeah, okay, it's not the same as a $4,000 laptop running a 10 gigabit internet connection, but it also doesn't cost me a ton of pocket space either.

That said, I at least agree that gaming isn't really the direction to go with these things. As much as I love for phones to 'do more', I wish they'd go in the PDA direction instead of the Game Boy direction. One of the things I loved about my 3650 is that it effectively killed my desire to use a PocketPC. More more more.