[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Future of mobile games

[Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez]

Yeah, as DrDon said, mobile industry, as chaotic as it is (no more than the
PC), has yet to find its Command n Conquers, its WoWs or whatever, a game
which represents the mobile industrys finest.

Licensed games dont always sell that well. I remember reading something on
Gamasutra a while ago saying the LOTR mobile game(s?) bombed in the face of
simpler, classinc titles like Tetris or Parcheese. Licenses are good. Taking
inspiration from classics also is, but mobile games are a kind of it own
(mainly because of the horrible, inconsistent human interfaces), and should
be treated as such.

A couple of years ago nobody gave a dime for Touch-screen games, and now the
DS prints money. GPS, SMS, the microphone and the Camera are great
interfaces which offer great possibilities, but are still pretty much
unexplored.



On 3/7/07, DrDon <don at sonaural.com> wrote:

>

>  IMHO - the killer-app game for mobile has yet to be made (as many point

> out).

>

> dd

>

> � wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> I saw last year's TOP 50 games (according ELSPA) and the speech of Trip

> Hawkins in GDC, and I went to sleep with a question biting my head last

> night: Is there a future for original mobile games?

>

> As we can see, most of downloaded games are adaptations from Console/PC

> games or those using TV show brands. As Hawkins said, only 5% of mobile

> customer download a game and, coincidentally, 5% of mobile customers are

> console/PC gamers (or ex-gamers). Maybe that would explain why the most

> downloaded games are remakes of console/PC ones.

>

> We know that it is too expensive to keep getting brands to create a new

> game. Only big companies, like EA, Ubisoft and others, that already got

> their own big brands, do not have big costs to worry with.

>

> So, I would like to listen to some opinions about this.

>

> PS: The article can be found at:

> http://www.mobileindustry.biz/article.php?article_id=2327

>

> PS2: The ELSPA article can be found at: http://mobilegames.blogs.com/mobile_games_blog/2007/01/elspas_2006_lis.html

>

> Thanks and best regards,

>

>

>

>

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