You know technology is moving at the pace it should be when the next generation of home consoles arrive around the same time frame that previous generations have arrived. The original PlayStation arrived in 1995 with the Ps2 in 2000 and PS3 in 2006. All other major home consoles also landed in the same years. And of course this year we have the PlayStation 4 and the new Xbox One coming to us (albeit the Wii U has already been in circulation for months now).
But as home consoles have begun their new cycle...Mobile gaming has, mobile gaming has...Well mobile gaming has switched more from the heavy hitters and been stolen by the indie developers. Cell phones and tablets have crashed the mobile market and stolen the thunder of what once happened to be ruled by Nintendo and the gameboy series of handhelds. Games like temple run, angry birds, and the smash hit robot unicorn attack (which I've personally wasted a few hours of my life on) have cornered the market and seems as if they have no plans of slowing down. Even true major companies have ported all of the best and classics down into your favorite phone and tablets, sonic the hedgehog makes many cameos on your favorite mobile system. The most successful RPG producer known to us, SquareEnix have ported many of its final fantasys alongside a few original RPGs.
The largest development company to the mobile market, and don't quote me on this please this is just the name I see on most games in the market, Gameloft appears to own Google and apple. They push out games like nobodies business. There honestly seems to be more success in the mobile market now than their is in the home market. Seeing as to how you need to build the game, test it, release it and then push patches, new levels, updates. Not to mention if the game is successful and your fans push and request sequels. Take angry birds for example? Its gone from a simple game on our androids and iPhone and is now a full $30 game that we play on Xbox via the kinect sensor, I am 100% sure the staff at rovio never envisioned this. They have a spinoff cartoon, multiple contracts with Walmart for plush toys, clothing, pillow pets the sky was once the limit but they have reached interplanetary success. All pun intended seeing as to them releasing angry birds space.
Now with the way mobile devices have succeeded, I would love to see the indie companies continue such success on home consoles. The success has been hit and miss so far with few huge successes on a home console. But just today Xbox revealed news of in development code. Now don't ask exactly what that is as even Microsoft is still pretty hush hush on it, but the main comparison being made is minecraft. If anyone knows minecraft they understand the open ended world and customization of it. I won't go into it any further until Microsoft goes into it.
In a nutshell, as computers and phones have grown, so has gaming. Our favorite console no longer just plays games, but can download games instantly, along with movies, and Skype. They can stream the internet. But honestly what device doesn't handle minimum 3 main tasks?
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