How many of you guys remember the good old days of gaming, when all you had to do was go to the store, buy a disc, put it in your console, and then you had the life game? You didn’t need to update it.
There was no server maintenance downtime, you could play forever. Or back when mobile gaming was a DS, a PSP, or even a Game Boy.
Take an example of the world’s famous game, 8 ball pool, the future looks bright as it captures the audience for a while. It does not matter, you are playing honestly or with cheat injectors like EasyVictory, the future promises the same for both types of players.
If you’re old enough to remember those, well, nowadays gaming is crazy. It’s these live services with patch notes, updates pushing out new content. A lot of these games are even free to play, and they try to sell you stuff all the time in-game, right? Well, we’ve seen gaming evolve quite a lot.
The Evolution of Gaming Across Devices
We are not just talking about cloud gaming or maybe taking PC games on the go with a Steam Deck. We mean the same games on a computer that you can also just run on a phone, like 8 ball pool.
Not only are you playing a PC game at home, but being able to boot up that same game with the same character, the same in-game cosmetics, the same progress, and being able to play it at the bus stop on your phone or the train. Or being able to come home, sit on your couch, and play the same game on a PS5. Complete seamless experience, no matter what platform you play on.
The Future of Cross-Platform Gaming
We are now seeing the same games show up on the marketplace for PC games as they are on the same app stores and marketplaces for mobile games. We wouldn’t be surprised if we just see more and more games start to take advantage of this, especially now that phones are getting very powerful.
Infact, recently unboxed phones have 18 gigs of RAM, 500 gigs, a terabyte of storage. It is insane the power that we have in the palm of our hands.
Now that phones are finally catching up to PC specs in some ways or at least able to emulate console game quality right in our pocket, you’re just going to have an absolute seamless playing field for these games to coexist across whatever you want to play on.
Challenges of Shooters in Cross-Platform Play
You’ll notice that a lot of the games, like Undecember and Trejo Online, are more RPG, MMO games. This type of experience is really hard to get on shooter games.
If you have a keyboard and mouse player playing against a player that’s playing on phones, that might be an unfair balance when they go against each other.
So with shooter games, it’s a little bit more of a challenge, but that’s where Warzone Mobile is going to make a pretty big splash. Warzone is doing the perfect system where no matter where you go, you can still be making progress on your account.
The Impact of Cloud Gaming and Streaming Services
We’ve already seen mobile and PC games begin to blend, where you can emulate mobile games on a computer, or you can take PC games on the go with a Steam Deck or even using a cloud gaming service to play it on your phone.
Where you’re not running the game on your phone, it’s more like as long as you have a strong internet connection, some computer in some warehouse somewhere nearby is running the game with a graphics card, and it’s beaming the game to your phone using a fast internet connection.
As long as the latency is low enough, you can play a full PC game on your phone, maybe use a controller even, but the phone itself is not running the game.
Conclusion
Mobile gaming is the biggest in the gaming industry, there are more players on mobile than on console and PC combined. The mobile industry makes more money a year than both combined, it’s also the fastest growing market. One of the reasons behind its popularity is that it’s convenient and allows people to play games anytime and anywhere, not everyone owns a video game console, but almost everyone owns a smartphone these days, that being Apple or Android. So, whether you like Mobile gaming, you love Mobile gaming, or you hate Mobile gaming, I don’t think Mobile gaming is going anywhere. Stop saying mobile Gamers aren’t real Gamers if you’re playing games, no matter the device, technically you’re a gamer