Hacker News Reader

Comment by DjDarkman | Hacker News Reader

> Sony just dropped a bomb on the Japanese stage

"Someone set up us the bomb"

"We get signal... main screen turn on"

Hello gentlemen, all your games are belong to us.

I think smartphones are currently too limited for gaming. You can create some touchscreen/accelerometer based games, but still I think a resistant D-Pad and two buttons should be mandatory for phones, or maybe if Android would add support for attaching a real(preferably smaller) controller... that would be an improvement.

I don't think hardware speed is an issue for mobile gaming anymore though.

View on HN

The billions of dollars smartphone game developers make disagree with you. I can't find exact numbers but a quick Google session reveals that total console game sales ($11-12 billion) are not far ahead of mobile game sales (a significant portion of total mobile app sales, estimated to be around $5 billion).

Given the rate smartphone sales and smartphone app sales grow, I don't think it will take a long time until mobile game sales with overtake console game sales.

I didn't imply they are not making money, I didn't even touch the financial side of this, I just said that the lack of "proper" game controllers is a limiting factor, which should be addressed.

> Given the rate smartphone sales and smartphone app sales grow, I don't think it will take a long time until mobile game sales with overtake console game sales.

I don't think we will see that anytime soon, you won't get big screen experience from mobile phones that you can get from playing on your favorite console on a Full HD screen.

This is a solved problem, although I'm sure there's lots of space for improvement. Google for "android bluetooth game controller". It does mean you're carrying two devices around, but you can go for the PSPhone if that bothers you.

I take it you haven't seen the PlayStation Phone, http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/sony-ericsson-xperia-play...

I have seen that that's what I am talking about, it will be fun to play games on that phone because it has a nice controller, however not all Android 2.1+ Phones come with that, that is why I don't think this will be a hit until they manage to solve this problem on all phones.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com