Monday, November 12, 2012

Week 2 EOC: Boston Consulting Group - Video Games

Mobile devices are better than at home gaming console's especially for laptop, ipad, kindle, etc. users because they are cheaper and less of a hassle to worry about. Most mobile device games, "now that technology has come so far", online gaming is starting to be in high demand. The video gaming industry on consoles games has raised the prices of those products dramatically, were as Mobile Devices generally cost half the dollar amount of their sister product. “Sales of video games themselves, excluding PC titles, fell 25 percent to $432.6 million. Sales of hardware such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 fell 37 percent to $187.3 million. Sales of accessories, meanwhile, grew 5 percent to $135.6" million.http://news.yahoo.com/us-video-game-sales-drop-25-percent-october-000130390.html 
Whereas the home console systems are slowly starting to fall off the market, because no one wants to feel like they have to be in front of the television to play games. With the mobile device you can play games anywhere you see fit. Some game designers have even begun to focus more on mobile device games, then CD ROM gaming (XBOX360, PS3, WII, ETC.) Consumers want faster and less time consuming games nowadays, But there still is people who feel strongly about the home console systems for game. “There is nothing wrong with simple games; in fact, I believe that the simple games such as Angry Birds, Osmos, and Flick Gulf are the best games for a phone platform. They are easy to play have great graphics and require little time when you are on the go. These simple games to me are the limit of what phones are capable of doing and not according to processing power, but rather to playability."http://androidandme.com/thread/will-phones-ever-become-primary-gaming-consoles/
Although all mobile devices have a little further to go to surpass home game consoles, the mobile industry is still working on better improvements  for their system, it still has a huge advantage over the other gaming industries. Myself as a consumer of gaming merchandise, i believe by the year 2020 everything will be connected to some form of a mobile system. And with all the improvements already those changes to life are happening very rapidly.
"In the past three years, we have gone from a smattering of mobile statistics to an abundance of useful information. But there's still a long way to go, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge, some countries enjoy a proliferation of data sources, while others have little or none; and the quality of statistics varies incredibly. As telecoms regulators and industry associations start to collect and share meaningful data, things will only get better."http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats

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