Oh man. It's like I'm having mobile gaming debates from 2010 again. This isn't meant to be rude, but I find it increasingly frustrating to debate this with people who don't seem to have the mindset of someone who uses a smartphone today in daily life, or talks to people who do. I've been experiencing this problem in MC threads (and in "Listen to my great idea for how Mobile Gaming can evolve" threads) for what feels like a century now, and it's always the same talking points which don't relate to reality:
- "mobile gaming is huge in Japan" - no, it's huge everywhere. Japan isn't that special, Japanese mobile games games just far more popular in Japan, because people can actualyl read Japanese.
- "publishers can make expensive premium titles and shift the mindset" - no this is not some untested theory that might have potential, it a strategy several publishers tried and burned themselves on years ago. It's a different market, there are different demands, you can't forcefully transplant one into the other.
- "people like options! some people prefer controllers to touch controls!" - sure but these people make up such an insignificant portion of actual users that catering specifically to them is not going to help you much.
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