Console Gaming Won't Be Taken Down by Android or Apple iOS

Quentin McIntyre: "Gaming seems to be one of the most interesting hobbies in that more debates surround it than some political races. The most recent conversations that have gamers lobbing insults back and forth is that the increase in the popularity of mobile gaming on non-traditional hardware will be the fall of console gaming."

[bwazy]

No sh*t

[Pixel_Pusher]

Oh it won't take it down but it will take a nice chunk of the market.

[GunShotEddy]

It's only mobile fanboys and clueless bloggers that think consoles will die off. You didn't even mention cloud gaming btw.

[vgchica]

I agree. It's just anoother case of Chicken Little screaming "the sky is falling".

[Dwalls1171]

At the end of the day a phone is a phone..... NOT A GAMING SYSTEM

[Ricardoportillo04]

oh boy really i was starting to get worried -_-

[Close_Second]

Portable gaming tech does not stagnate for 6 years like consoles do. I can see a day where you'll plug your portable into your big screen tv with better than current gen console results. I like the idea of an all in one device. Anyone who thinks it couldnt happen is fooling themself.

[cervantes99]

I like your idea - but to get even current gen results out of a mobile game, chip design would have to take an evolutionary leap forward.

Having fast CPU/GPU or some combo chip just would not get enough airflow in a mobile device that fits in your pocket. Heat is usually the enemy in small devices, which limits how advanced they can become - in terms of gaming I mean.

[kma2k]

while it is possible for that to happen with how technology progresses. I think by that point gaming will all be done as a cloud based system like onlive & whos to say we will even be using phones at that point?

Since we are throwing out what if's by that time we might have a chip implanted into you that you can comunicate with other without the need of a phone.

[Fanbot]

cpt obvious

[cervantes99]

Phew!

I was getting scared that $.99 Fruit Ninja or Angry Birds would replace Uncharted, Gears and Halo for me.

Glad that is cleared up!

[crackerface_whitey]

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[air1]

explain that to THQ, they seem to think it will.

[Silly Mammo]

Mobile phones can't even begin to be competitive until they improve the technology of the battery life. After all the bells and whistles, your phone is still phone and who wants to be stranded somewhere because you were playing the 3rd level of Assasin's Creed 5 all morning.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Android or Apple iOS vs console? Next up television vs stereo.

[tiffac]

Most of these so called journalist or bloggers aren't even gamers to begin with. Any honest to goodness gamer will tell you how the console market really works and why there is a lull this year, a peek the next, why there is a cycle etc... Anyone claiming that the handheld market will take over is either ill-informed or is just trying to be in the know by repeating what a bunch of so-called experts are saying.

They said before that the PC gaming will die and be replaced by console but it didn't and is now co-existing with consoles. History repeats itself.