Now even console games come with controllers covered with complex buttons, triggers and built-in joysticks.
Part of the problem is the costs of producing console games is rising ever higher.
But there is no equivalent for console games, and as such, consumers still need Gamestop.
The service now is able to stream not only console games, but full applications and operating systems.
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Console games are much harder to pirate than PC versions, as the console hardware needs to be modified.
Fortugno rejects the idea that somehow smart phone games should be ghettoized and thought of separately from console games.
They would have to go and make console games for big studios instead.
The administrator Smith Cooper said Eurocom was "one of the largest and most prolific independent console games developers worldwide".
The Xperia Play was the first PlayStation phone, which had a slide-out controller and let players download classic console games.
But smartphone games can be just as deep as console games, but they achieve that depth in a totally different way.
OnLive and Otoy, for their part, plan to let users play console games without consoles, by streaming them over the internet.
Eurocom, based near Mackworth, faced financial problems following a drop in sales of console games and the loss of several major contracts.
However, as portable gaming devices have got more powerful these scaled down versions of console games feel like poor value for money.
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But Pachter believes it will be a while before the depth of console games, or even PS Vita games, migrate to smartphones and tablets.
Games on the system will be a fraction of the cost of traditional console games, more comparable to those found on mobiles and tablets.
The top Facebook games, meanwhile, are simply nothing at all like the top PC or console games in any way, shape, or form.
The analog joysticks and shoulder buttons are in just the right place -- if you're used to playing console games, you'll be right at home.
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Games and mobile games in particular have been accused of being cheap and sort of disposable, whereas console games are (seen as) infinitely more valuable.
The games industry has repeatedly warned that next generation console games would be much more expensive to develop because of the level of skill needed.
The prices for NES and Super NES Virtual Console games for Wii U will be the same as they were for the Virtual Console on Wii.
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Tegra 3, with four performance processing cores, in addition to its fifth battery saver core, and a 12-core GeForce GPU, is putting console games on notice.
Bobby Kotick, CEO of "Call of Duty" publisher Activision, says console games can be as integral to young people's social lives as Facebook and text messaging.
With Kinect, Microsoft thinks people generally opposed to complex console games will be more likely to give it a shot since it doesn't require manipulating a controller.
OnLive a cloud service that streams console games to your computer or to your TV through a micro set-top box is going way, way past games.
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Despite the weakening sales of consoles and console games, the growth of mobile, social and PC-based games means that total spending on gaming is actually on the rise.
Ubisoft's Hutchinson wants console games to deliver more meaningful experiences.
Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm last year, it shut down the LucasArts game development division, indicating its preference to license console games rather than develop them in-house.
Here we go again.. without fail, when ever there is an article or a discussion about a good looking console game..some PC fanboy always must through low blows on console games.
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But recently, some smaller developers are having an important influence about what games are about, and are getting some help from a big-name "big brother" to take console games in a different direction.
Players will be able to use the hand-held console as a camera, take pictures of themselves and automatically convert their images into Miis -- personalized in-game avatars like ones from Wii console games.
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