Opinion Piece: Why You Should Support Mobile Gaming

I will preface this by saying the following post is entirely my opinion, and should be taken as such. There is no certainty that what I am going to say will happen, it is only my opinion.

There is some kind of a debate going on right now in the gaming industry, about Mobile Gaming vs Console Gaming, where if Mobile gaming continues to grow, it may kill the console industry as we know it. This may come as a shock to you, but please... make that happen. Let me explain myself.

We (diehard console gamers) complain day in and day out that the industry today is ran by people who have no clue what gaming is, that they are only in it for the money. Well, you know why it is that way ? Because our little industry that could is now the biggest entertainment industry in the world. Console gaming, today, is THE biggest moneymaker in the entire entertainment world. That, my friends, will attract the wrong kind of people. The exact same kind of people John Smedley, CEO of Sony Online Entertainment, recently talked about. 

These guys, the typical businessmen with loads of cash and no interest in our beloved gaming industry, only want one thing: more money. They will flock to whatever is currently the #1 moneymaker. All of the current gaming landscape is the way it is because these guys are running the show. Let them move on to the new shiny: Mobile gaming.

Yes, there would be some collateral damage and an adaptation period if we were to lose out on all of that money. Big AAA games by 3rd parties like Bioshock, Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, would most likely be affected by such a change in funding. Then again, Kickstarter is starting to prove there are ways to get money beyond the typical publisher-developer scenario. But you know what ? I'm speaking for myself right now, but I'd be all for it. No more "You need this much GameScore on MetaCritic or no bonus for you because shareholders will drop us otherwise", no more insane crunch time because the publisher will not pay you if you don't deliver on time (more "When it's Done", less "Sorry, we'll have a patch soon"), no more Skyrim on PS3 (You know what I mean), no more DLC being cut out from the game while in production just to make more money later, no more of all that stuff that is currently poisoning our industry.

So I say, let Mobile gaming take over. Let the attention move on to mobile, and hopefully we will go back to doing our own thing, and have games made with passion once again.