The former vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, Shane Kim reckons that, despite the massive advances mobile gaming has seen in the for of smart phones, mobile gaming will not kill home consoles.
Kim, who has just taken a seat on the board of mobile firm Zipline, stated that rather than replacing consoles, mobile gaming will broaden the spectrum of gaming experiences available.He began: "I would never make that kind of an announcement. Obviously things are evolving and I think anybody who tries to say they know exactly what that future's going to look like - well, I think that thats a pretty tough prediction to try to make. Now, is it going to evolve as a component and are the shares going to change? Sure. But its not clear to me also that we're not talking about a world where there's a lot of growth and actually the total pie is expanding. So will there be some impact on console gaming? I think it would be hard to say that there isn't any impact, but I would never say that it's going to go away completely. I think that the big console game manufacturers, they've all got plans for the next console generation. I think that they're all shooting to make sure that those next versions, whatever they look like, are going to be things that are going to be compelling for the kinds of gamers, especially hard core gamers, who really enjoy that style of gaming."
"It's going to be a while before you have the kind of power... in mobile platforms that can compete effectively, I think," he continued. "So to me it's really about different choices for different types of gamers. There's different styles of games that are more popular on the different platforms and that just creates more opportunities, clearly, for more developers to create content. And the challenge is that there's a lot of people creating mobile game content today. So how do you help that community differentiate itself from the competition and also make money in the process?"
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