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When was the last time you had a tryst with a console based video game? Unless you are a true-blue gaming buff chances are that you are having your quota of gaming pleasure from your handheld smartphone. If you have an iPhone, then you have access to plentiful apps and to technologies like motion and touch sensitivity. Whenever you have a few minutes to spare, you can indulge yourself with a really high-octane game. Even ordinary smartphones are coming packed with all kinds of gaming paraphernalia.
A large number of the casual gamers already seem to have shifted their loyalties to smartphones. Investing so much time and money on consoles is simply not worth it. Gaming on smartphones offers the advantage of being available anywhere, anytime. This is something that the consoles cannot match. You cant carry your Nintendo, XBOX, or PS3 to the airport or railway station to play while you are on the plane or train. But you can carry your smartphone, and you do carry it along, wherever you go.
Nintendo and Sony are now coming up with gaming machines that are more portable. But we have already seen what happened with portable digital cameras, music systems, calculators, etc. Ultimately, these devices started getting featured within the smartphone. There exists a very real possibility that a portable gaming machine might also end up becoming part of a portable smartphone or tablet.
Gaming is turning out to be much more enjoyable on the smartphones for another reason the availability of many more titles. Gamers enjoy the idea of playing new games. The truth is that the creation of a game for a console is a rather long drawn affair. It costs millions and at times takes years to develop. Whereas, a game for an iPhone or Android or Windows based system can be written in a matter of weeks. There is lot of fresh material that smartphone gamers have access to at far cheaper rates.
As of now the real hardcore games have not become available on the smartphones. With the way technology is improving, its only a question of time before we start having feature rich games like God of War and others on our handheld devices. PlayStation and Nintendo have come up with 3D gaming ideas, but that service is hampered by lack of 3D titles. In any case, most users cant afford to buy 3D TV sets.
Gaming is a form of entertainment, and there is only so much that a normal gamer can spend for the benefit of being entertained. The biggest advantage that the smartphones have is that they offer gaming pleasure at incredibly cheap rates. At the price of one device, the user has his communication, connectivity and gaming related needs taken care of. This makes the deal quite reasonable from end user point of view. The rise of tablets, which incorporate a better processing power, could almost certainly have the effect of enhancing the migration of casual gamers from consoles to handheld devices. A game like Angry Birds is a pure joy playing on iPhone or iPad.
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