Re: Year-End Stats of the Video Games Industry

On 12/20/2024 2:08 PM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
 

      - Mobile games absolutely dominates the industry, taking
        in more than twice as much as consoles and PC combined.

 What do people actually play on their phones?  Is it all casual? I do
some crosswords on my phone these days but that's pretty much it.

I don't really play much mobile any more, but I used to play all sorts of different games. I actually tend more toward rpgs. One of the TMNT games on iphone that's kind of like Hades has been my go-to when I'm stuck places.
Lately I started reading fantasy on Royal Road after someone on the DnDMemes reddit mentioned "Beware of Chicken".  It was decent, but it was broken up and missing stuff because of selling completed chapters elsewhere.
My favorite complete work (free, but can donate or buy on Amazon) I've come across so far was:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62577/father-of-monstrosity-also-available-on-amazon
Very dark and feels like if a Chinese RPG, Lovecraft and Howard collaborated.
Back to the subject at hand, Roblox and Minecraft are very popular on mobile, and other simple games probably aimed more at kids.  I can't imagine playing it on a phone, but I assume tablets have become a more popular mode of play.  One can also use bluetooth controllers so you don't have to use poor onscreen controls.  Having 10s (100s? millions?) of thousands of free games is pretty attractive too.
There's always Bluestacks too if you want to play those games on our ridiculously overpowered gaming computers vs. tablets, though a lot of performance is lost from emulation.
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