Post by MikuMatt on Feb 5, 2018 12:19:04 GMT
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Puzzle & Dragons, one of the biggest success stories in mobile development, is in dire straights.
I don't think the mobile market is going to disappear - there's too much money in it. I do, however, think that it is going to be absolutely dominated by a tiny few companies that are able to brute force their way to the top of the app stores, and there just won't be any scraps left for anyone else.
It's such a pity. For board games, strategy games and RPGs, mobile promised so much, but Google and Apple have comprehensively failed to provide an environment in which premium-priced titles can be competitive, and so the whole market has fallen into one of the most brutally combative races to the bottom that we've ever seen.
I fear the rest of the industry isn't far behind if developers and publishers can't convince people to pay full price for games and not wait for Steam sales or bundles.
Puzzle & Dragons, one of the biggest success stories in mobile development, is in dire straights.
I don't think the mobile market is going to disappear - there's too much money in it. I do, however, think that it is going to be absolutely dominated by a tiny few companies that are able to brute force their way to the top of the app stores, and there just won't be any scraps left for anyone else.
It's such a pity. For board games, strategy games and RPGs, mobile promised so much, but Google and Apple have comprehensively failed to provide an environment in which premium-priced titles can be competitive, and so the whole market has fallen into one of the most brutally combative races to the bottom that we've ever seen.
I fear the rest of the industry isn't far behind if developers and publishers can't convince people to pay full price for games and not wait for Steam sales or bundles.
