Gimme Gimme Games writes about their complaints with Sony's new Playstation All-Stars app for iOS/Android saying it isn't a good move in light of the PS Vita's struggles or for the Playstation brand as a whole. They also argue that this shows how Nintendo embracing mobile phones in a similar way would be a bad move too.
Chris Penwell from BagoGames writes: I get it. The install base is huge on smart phones. In fact, the Entertainment Software Association claims that 53% of American households who own a gaming system play on a smart phone with a 15% increase of smartphone and wireless device use in 2012 alone. It's worrying, and cell phone gaming alongside free-to-play has been behind the likes of micro-transactions and in-game currency within modern games.
I don't. The two greatest banes to smartphone games is that they are far too reliant on a freemium/f2p micro transaction model. Its rampant in the market and goes to show the overall intent of the smartphone gaming scene. Its become normal to have that crap in there games and that nonsense is leaking into the console market. I do not like the idea of having a cashier living in my pocket. Once I put money down for that game I NEVER want to see them again until a sequel comes out. Being constantly teased with things in the game locked behind a paywall is immersion breaking and I cant stand that shit.
The second issue is that there are no tactile buttons on the hardware. The device is a phone first and everything else second. I dont want to play games on hardware that sees it as an after thought. If I have to buy an entirely separate peripheral just to play a game properly then that just tells me that they never thought about it seriously from the start.
There are a "handful" of games on smartphones that show good quality. They have pretty cutscenes and high definition 3d models. But their ultimate potential is truncated by being on hardware that isn't specifically made for gaming. Controls just aren't as responsive period. You can never play Ninja Gaiden/DMC/Bayonetta on a Smartphone the way you can on a Vita let alone a ps2/3.
And because of these reasons I don't bother thinking about smartphone games.
I love it. I really truly do. I play android games on my Nvidia Shield all the time. The emulators are top notch and there are some quality games out there. Now I say some good games. There are a Lot of garbage apps to soft through, but lots are worth the effort. Some gems that come to mind; half life 2, KOTOR, Gta:SA, bards tale, Reaper, and of course Conduit.
Edit: I should really reiterate how great the psp emulator is. I love monster hunter and ufc on the go.
Funny how you say the best games come from consoles or PCs.
I think it only proves the level of quality that consoles have versus Android\IOs games.
I have a phone which basically just can be used to talk or text.It's quite old and not fancy.
So that's my background on that when I say "I don't like this rise of mobile gaming at all, infact I hate that it has become so popular and makes people stupid with too simple games"
So in a nutshell I hate what I don't really know. =)
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so people decided to write articles about a mini game for phones just to b**ch fit about i lol.
they are all acting like Sony is just going to start throwing all of their high profile games on phones and tablets.
only the media would overreact to this lol.
No they'll complain about it to no end and then act like Microsoft has NEVER done anything like that before, conveniently ignoring Halo: Spartan Ops for tablets and windows phones, or the Halo 4 double XP brought to you by Doritos and Mt.Dew.
Who ever said Microsoft has never done this? You see articles about it here all the time. People bring it up every chance they get.
People here...
Even in an article involving something purely about Sony, they need to make Microsoft the target.
It's comical.
The halo tablet game is a "real game", and respectable for what it is. Its also for comparatively obscure windows tablets that very few people have, hence less reviews!
WTH does MS have to do with this anyway? Every thing someone says about a piece of software doesn't have to play into your bizarre all-arching platform war narrative.
Personally i don't care as much about MS' ips, so even if they whored them out like this i probably wouldn't be so bothered, or even notice. Also, they wouldn't likely poop on their entire ip backlog at once in one throwaway title would they?
People have been complaining about these things for ages and they do it for the views and nothing more.
Not like anyone cares what some guy thinks about a free to play game. Would take the average person less time to merely download and try the game, than read some critics musings on the game.
Im not "the media" I'm a blogger. I guess you could call that "the media", but im just the same as anyone here, and care about Sony and their IPs.
And i wrote about it because it pissed me off, so of course i would. Its sort of the point to write about stuff you care about?
I doubt nintendo or sony would make an original, built from the ground up game on anything other than their own hardware, for this exact reason. If (big if) anything, nintendo would just throw old mario bros games on the appstore and make loads as well as increase the audience for the new mario games exclusive to their systems. Sony hasnt been around as long so i dont see them selling playstation games outside of psn because theyre too big and complex for phones.
To those that think the vita is being cheated of anything remotely good, this is just a stupid minigame collection promoting Coke starring playstation characters... youre not missing anything.
Isn't bothering me. I could careless, people will use it and it will give them more money. I am not playing the games, they aren't on PS Vita and they surely aren't slapping anyone with one in the face or me for that matter.
I can almost bet most Vita owners without seeing this article had no idea what this even is or was.
Entire article was so dramatized. I could barely get through it all.
Its not the same game tho, its an ios version of the game. The vita version is the better version with all the content. This is for a 5 minute boring break
You know what could make the Vita sell better? Put Android(Super Customized) on it with 4G.
There's no doubt Android is owning everything in the Portable Market. And only by doing that Sony can kill de 3DS/DS.
Or make it support Android as its second OS. Something like OtherOS on the PS3.
isnt that just to promote their franchises? its just free to play mini-games.