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Last year mobile phones where in greater demand than consoles(1999)The outlay for decent phone is very similar to that of a playstation,and phone bills could easily account for the money you would have spent on software.With internet ready mobiles already out in the uk it is only a matter of time before the consumer asks that their full color mobile phone gets to play some serious games.Nintendo has recognized this as a threat because its upcoming Game Boy Advance links with cellular phones so you can download files from the internet.When will other companies learn that phones are not getting the treatment they deserve ,most paople have phones so why not utilise that factor,Sega are bringing out a collection of games like sonic to boast their sales and I believe it will work.In twenty years console vs console may not be the battle but console vs the phone.
Nutty, I'm afraid. Look at phones. In the hands of some legitimate real person with worthwhile calls to make, it ain't going to be what prevents them from getting a console. Then look at one of the millions of kids with phones. What the heck does that 9 year old in the play park have to say to someone that's so important anyway?
Then GBA, mobiles and the internet. Quite how a useful method of connecting a computer to the internet could destroy the games industry is anyone's guess.
Games? Well look at the phones. Everyone is constantly making them SMALLER, because that's what people want. The days when owning a mobile was like carrying a brick around are long gone and not to be revisited, and even with our technology, a computer to challenge consoles in the same box as a phone would be pretty darn big. Then think (I know you didn't last time, but try) about the method of control. The crappy buttons on the mobile wouldn't encourage lightning fast gameplay, and everything new has an analogue stick, which again isn't exactly ideal for a mobile.
Basically, they don't share a market because they offer different things, and anyway, everyone already has a mobile, and the novelty value is rapidly falling away. Gaming wasn't inhibited by phones selling at their peak, and WAP goes even further away from taking little kids money that would otherwise go on video games. The main way I see them affecting the gaming industry is in a positive way, with modems being released that will allow consoles to connect to the net and hence offering a whole new dimension to old/handheld consoles.
The only threat mobiles pose is they will one day make it impossible to sit on a train without some loser in a suit shouting "I can't hear you, I've gone into a tunnel".
Then GBA, mobiles and the internet. Quite how a useful method of connecting a computer to the internet could destroy the games industry is anyone's guess.
Games? Well look at the phones. Everyone is constantly making them SMALLER, because that's what people want. The days when owning a mobile was like carrying a brick around are long gone and not to be revisited, and even with our technology, a computer to challenge consoles in the same box as a phone would be pretty darn big. Then think (I know you didn't last time, but try) about the method of control. The crappy buttons on the mobile wouldn't encourage lightning fast gameplay, and everything new has an analogue stick, which again isn't exactly ideal for a mobile.
Basically, they don't share a market because they offer different things, and anyway, everyone already has a mobile, and the novelty value is rapidly falling away. Gaming wasn't inhibited by phones selling at their peak, and WAP goes even further away from taking little kids money that would otherwise go on video games. The main way I see them affecting the gaming industry is in a positive way, with modems being released that will allow consoles to connect to the net and hence offering a whole new dimension to old/handheld consoles.
The only threat mobiles pose is they will one day make it impossible to sit on a train without some loser in a suit shouting "I can't hear you, I've gone into a tunnel".
Last year mobile phones where in greater demand than consoles(1999)The outlay for decent phone is very similar to that of a playstation,and phone bills could easily account for the money you would have spent on software.With internet ready mobiles already out in the uk it is only a matter of time before the consumer asks that their full color mobile phone gets to play some serious games.Nintendo has recognized this as a threat because its upcoming Game Boy Advance links with cellular phones so you can download files from the internet.When will other companies learn that phones are not getting the treatment they deserve ,most paople have phones so why not utilise that factor,Sega are bringing out a collection of games like sonic to boast their sales and I believe it will work.In twenty years console vs console may not be the battle but console vs the phone.