Last Updated: December 8th, 2022
Is console gaming dead? The current edge is the edge of digitization and mobile gaming is continuously expanding the market all over the world, particularly in front of youths and children. Tech-savvy youths often use to get attracted very quickly to the mobile gaming market and accordingly foreign investors use to target the interests of the youths. Following the passion and interests concerning the various surveys done by these foreign gaming companies specifically with the help of internet-based websites as well as YouTube channels, they focus on similar games to be developed by their developers. Investing as well as the testing environment in India for foreign companies in the field of gaming is extremely favorable and accordingly, there are several MNCs based on the gaming industries targeting the public interests and building up their user base.
Console Gaming Getting Dead Because of Mobiles
However, it would not at all be correct to say that mobile gaming is targeted to kill the consoles as the mobile gaming market is completely different in properties, interests, and characteristics from the PC games. With the invention and development of Android and iOS, there are a lot of mobile games under their play stores that get outdated after a little period. It is another matter of fact that millions of users who are using the Apple store or the Android play store often use to surf the games lying in their play stores. Based on their interests, they also use to download them into their specific devices and make them uninstalled after a little period. Following these points, it would not at all be wrong to say that mobile games remain consistent with public interests for a fewer period only. The main reason behind this is that the youths or the children targeting to play interesting games via their devices get a lot of options for an instant download of any other kind of game. On the other hand, PC games in the form of consoles remain consistent for public interests as it is not that much handy and easy as that of mobile devices. So, how can a console be affected by the development of a mobile gaming environment? They both hold their different positions and their uses in front of the public interests are also different holding specific areas. Mobile games are generally pretty casual and played for short periods. PC games tend to be more specific and played for longer periods.
As compared to mobile games, PC games stand much above the levels being held by the mobile gaming environment. Being much more specific and sophisticated, they even support much longer gameplay durations. Talking about versatility, PC Gaming consoles are much more versatile as compared to the mobile gaming environment and thereby supporting the extremely high-quality graphical display and are therefore more engaging concerning the public interests. Whether it is an FPS or simulation or racing, PC does provide a much more quality user experience to the game along with the incredible graphics providing the most attention to detail. Some reasons are there for the popularity of mobile games quickly among the masses all around which does at all affect the popularity of PC gaming at all. Mobile devices being portable and internet-friendly anytime and anywhere with the invention of the latest and fastest mobile system processors supports the users to enjoy the gaming environment in this extremely handy device and nothing more than that. As compared to modern mobile devices, PC or laptop battery backup is also not that strong and needs to be charged up frequently which yet acts as another major drawback. Portability is being focused on the mobile system developing organizations and the same functionality is being followed up by the laptop or the PC manufacturers too. The smaller the device, the smaller will be the handling issues and a much more user-friendly environment will be provided to the users, and thereby if interested in the gaming environment, the users can instantly switch the device on and start playing the same. Talking the few past decades and as per the researchers, people have bored playing and enjoying the gaming option using their portable devices such as mobile phones or tablets. As compared to the mobile gaming options, a sustainable increase in the PC gaming consoles and development environment has been noticed. There exist several different games representing different characteristics for different gaming activities. There also exist several different mediums which are considered the extremely best options to handle certain activities rather than others. Smartphones, PCs, consoles, and VR devices are all going to diverge the market of gaming rather than converging it proving the expansion as well as the limitation lying underneath both the development environments including mobile gaming as well as the PC gaming consoles.
As per the continuous feedback, research, and issues concerned with mobile gaming as well as the PC gaming environment, there exist basically two kinds of gamers including the casual kind and the hardcore kind. The people playing games just for relaxation due to their overloaded working schedules are considered casual gamers playing games such as the Candy crush saga. However, the people who utilize gaming as their passion and illusion too are considered hardcore game players and they often use to play games such as Dota or Counterstrike 8. Until and unless, these defined boundary line figures are get transcended by the mobile gaming environment, consoles will always remain in demand and mobile gaming will not at all be able to ride over the same. Thinking towards abolishing the consoles with the advent of the mobile gaming environment is not much more than a foolish act and owing to the multidimensional functionalities and defined properties as discussed all over the article, the overtaking of the consoles by the mobile gaming environment would take a lot of time or even cannot dare to go ahead beyond the boundaries. Do you think that console gaming is getting dead?
I don’t think that mobile gaming WILL kill console gaming. Because console is still a close competitor of PC gaming and its like you’re saying mobile gaming is killing PC too. Its disruptive technology with more mobile phones being manufactured specifically for gaming but it only opened up a new market, not necessarily kill the market.