The games that do use the screen properly and take advantage of the hardware are a lot of fun to play. Tower defense games are a great genre for touch screens, for example. But I would hate to see it is the only option for mobile gaming, especially after all the fun I got out of the Gameboy and DS.

One could compare it to the PC vs console issue. Some games work better with a mouse and keyboard, whereas some benefit from a console controller with the analog thumb sticks.

Smartphones and tablet games are better than Uncharted 2, Gears of War 3, Batman Arkham City, Call of Duty, Battlefield, FIFA, Killzone, God of war, HALO are they?

Get a grip you damn idiot!

And the rapid increase in the resolution stuff is pretty bad for the consoles. It definitely seems like the future consoles will be either hardware upgradable or will be having different versions of it for different resolutions and graphics performance levels.

While all these stuffs are happening PC gaming is really shining, there was a reason why people preferred buying consoles, but things are going to change sooner :)

Smartphones have the same issues as many computers, if you make a game for a smartphone its hard to guarantee that it will run smoothly on all devices, given the different hardware and OS versions. With a standardized gaming device, developers don’t run into these problems.

The same holds true for consoles. The delivery medium might be changing (all console games will most likely become DDL over the next cycle), but the need for a standard platform to deliver high-quality games (.99 cent games that sell a million copies are nothing compared to $40-$60 hand-held and console games that sell well over 100,000 copies) will always exist and cannot be usurp through other medians until they can standardized hardware and software across all platforms…which will not happen.

If anyone is curious about the “decline” of hand-helds and consoles, check out the worldwide sales listed on vgchartz…the numbers (and income) are staggering.

On the handheld front, until smartphone manufacturers start putting in better graphics chips, they will not replace the Vita’s or DS’s for at least 5 years in my opinion. Gaming is too large of a market and there are too many gaming companies that simply will have yet to move to a strictly downloadable model. They are also (likely for political reasons) unlikely to rely on the Android or Apple Marketplaces for their downloads. EA/Steam/Sony/Microsoft etc have already proven that they can compete on there own. It’s just too fragmented with handhelds still and everyone is still fighting for domination of how games will be distributed.

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/consoles-are-the-new-coin-op – Penny arcade did an excellent presentation on this – consoles are the arcades of this generation, and probably finished.

With all the portability of a multitasking device, why put a shiny silver disk into a hunk of plastic attached to your tv? With Onlive, the old way of doing things is about as foreign to me as a rotary phone.