So mobile gaming has been getting huge lately. Temple Run hit a billion downloads. I personally never liked mobile gaming. I always found it to be too simplistic. But it seems to have caught on. What do people think? I'm curious about this.

Mobile gaming is pretty cool. It allows the more beginner/novice indies a chance at competition, because even the competing games tend to be rather simplistic.

I like mobile gaming. As my days getting busier, my gaming time is getting less. I am starting to shy away from complex game mechanic, difficult to understand skill tree, tedious quests, grinding, long story lines, over-the-top graphics. I don't like all of that now.

I like quick and simple game. start, play 5 minutes, exit. Mobile games are great for that.

Mobile gameing has always been quite big even before Apple and Google released their smart phones. I worked on some J2ME games back in 2004 - 2007 that had in excess of 8,000,000 sales in the first year and that was when mobile carriers were still trying to price their games alongside budget PC games so £5 - £10 per game. It was just that mobile games werent really advertised in quite the same way that they are now but, people were still doing it in secret.

Personally I like mobile game but, there has become quite a lot of crap to wade through just to find the good ones but this is true everywhere now that everybody and his dog is a wannabe indie game designer.

I won't buy any phone for more than ~100 bucks. Even if I would have a Iphone, probably the very last thing I would use it for is gaming...

I've tried once X-Plane on my Android and got instantly bored by the graphics. Never fired it up again.- Maybe I'm simply getting to old for such.

I won't buy any phone for more than ~100 bucks. Even if I would have a Iphone, probably the very last thing I would use it for is gaming...
I've tried once X-Plane on my Android and got instantly bored by the graphics. Never fired it up again.- Maybe I'm simply getting to old for such.

Haha, I would have been instantly bored by the fact it is a flight simulator....

From my perspective, mobile gaming "caught on" around the time the first iPhone was released around 7 years ago.

There was already a big market for it on Symbian and J2ME, but the quirks of those platforms, and the relative difficulty in publishing and getting payed stopped it from really taking off.

Finally there was a performant platform that was easy to get started with and easy to publish for, and you could reach the _whole_ market with just a single build, and most of those people already had their credit card attached to their itunes account, so they where only a click and a password away from paying you for your work, so a lot more people could do it as an actual living.

I obviously like mobile gaming, I think the limitations are interesting, and that the input methods open doors to new ways to game.

It's not the same as PC and console gaming, and probably never will be. But that is mainly because of how and when people tend to play mobile games, not because developers are lazy :)

Mobile gameing has always been quite big even before Apple and Google released their smart phones. I worked on some J2ME games back in 2004 - 2007 that had in excess of 8,000,000 sales in the first year and that was when mobile carriers were still trying to price their games alongside budget PC games so £5 - £10 per game. It was just that mobile games werent really advertised in quite the same way that they are now but, people were still doing it in secret.

Personally I like mobile game but, there has become quite a lot of crap to wade through just to find the good ones but this is true everywhere now that everybody and his dog is a wannabe indie game designer.

No doubt that there is way too much crap out there these days. But I guess that's probably what makes mobile gaming so much bigger these days: the easy accessibility for developers.

So mobile gaming has been getting huge lately.

"Lately"? It got huge quite some time back. Angry Birds is old news; huge mobile games are old news.

So mobile gaming has been getting huge lately.

"Lately"? It got huge quite some time back. Angry Birds is old news; huge mobile games are old news.

I mean the overall trend, like from when it started and to where it's at now.