$ 65 billion is the value of the global gaming market in the June 2011 estimate. Did you imagine this? The world is spending this huge number in electronic games. This huge market that is growing one day continuously has become everyone flocking to it and is no longer limited to computers or even the three famous game platforms XBox, Wii, PlayStation, but during the past years a new fierce competitor has entered, which is portable devices Which is growing day by day and is considered the most rapidly developing market.

 

The major gaming companies are in danger due to the unprecedented power and great features of mobile devices, for example if you want Fifa 2012 game On your favorite gaming platform, whether the Playstation or the computer or otherwise, that will cost you an amount that will not be less than $ 47.99 depending on your game platform, while the owner of the iPad device, for example, can buy the game assigned to him for $ 4.99, i.e. at a price 90% less than other platforms. FIFA is considered one of the most expensive games on the store. To learn the impact of the iOS and Android duo on the American gaming market, let's look at the following picture.

The percentage of the largest company in the US and global market, which is Nintendo, decreased from 70% in 2009 to 36% this year, meaning that the company lost half of its market, as for mobile devices, and this is not a small percentage at all, and the same is for Sony, which lost half of its market. This prompted investors in game companies to pressure the boards of directors to force them to put their own games in the software store in order to compensate part of their losses (the companies do win, but what is meant is to compensate for what they lost), so a company like Nintendo sells its games at a price of $ 39.99 per game, but in the software store you can Get another competitive game for $ 0.99 or $ 1.99 only. Of course, many will say that the quality of the game on the Wii is by far better than the quality of the game on the iPad. Well, we will not differ much, although this is not always true, but suppose you have 3 children and each of them only wants two new games per year and the cost of the game is $ 40. You will find that you pay $ 240 annually with a Wii device, for example, and at the same time this amount is enough to get more than 100 games from The software store averages $ 2.4 for a game. If you don't like one, you will have 99 others to try, and don't forget that you get a lifetime upgrade for your game.

But was Apple content with the software store having low-priced games? No, but it sought to close a famous point of objection that may face the world of games, which is that we will not be able to always play on a 3.5-inch screen like an iPhone or a 9-inch like an iPad, but we want to play freely on a 36-inch TV screen, for example, so Apple developed its system and added the AirPlay Mirroring feature Where the iPad can be connected to Apple TV, for example, in order to play games on the iPad and watch them on the screen, and this is a video to demonstrate the strength of this feature in games:

Also, Apple sought to give a great opportunity to gaming companies by improving the capabilities and increasing the capacity of the device and the speed of the game processor, so we mention when the iPad 2 was announced and Apple said that its graphics engine is 9 times faster than before, and it is also for the iPhone 4S in its conference it said that it is twice the speed of the previous one And 7 times the speed of the graphics engine (GPU).

Not only did Apple talk about a powerful graphics engine, but it announced a new game of its own called Infinity Blade II and said that in order to work with the quality that you see in the following video, it must be on the iPhone 4S because it is available with its processor of high capacity and will be available in the software store On December 1st, that is, after a few days, and the game has high-quality effects and graphics:

A great game, and we can not imagine that it is on a phone. Perhaps there are a few games at the level in the software store, but we must admit that the games have developed strongly, and there are games that compete with their counterparts on other game platforms and may surpass them. The iPhone 4S was released a month ago, and game producers will start designing games that compete with the capabilities of this new phone. Here are a number of videos. To illustrate the power of games in iOS currently, which were announced before the launch of 4S with its great capabilities, we start with action games.

I got a game Modern Combat 3 Ali is the best action game in the American market as soon as it was released and it carried tens of thousands of times despite its high price, which is $ 6.99, but the game is characterized by high quality and also other games with the same strength. A hindrance to selling it.

Game Asphalt 6: Adrenaline  It is considered one of the best car games and by the way it was free for a limited time previously, and we announced that for sure, you got it for free if you are a good follower of us.

Finally this is a review For the 2012 Fifa game On the iPad, which works with quality that may surpass other devices:

Do you think that the iPhone and iPad can compete in the world of games or is there a point of superiority in favor of others that cannot be defeated because of it?

Sources: 9to5mac | 1up| Wiki

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