Nintendo reinvented the games industry with its Wii and DS UIs. Does the same thing need to happen in mobile games?
It’s easy to forget that the initial reaction to the Nintendo DS was very negative – in comparison to Sony’s PSP, which boasted a huge, bright LCD screen and the promise of PS2 quality games, the DS looked like a kid’s toy.Five years later and the DS is rapidly approaching the 100 million unit sales mark worldwide.
Its use of a touchscreen instead of traditional console controls has not only sparked the imagination of gamers – it has almost single handedly recruited a whole new generation of games players into the industry.
ME contributor Ben Parfitt asks whether a similar revolution needs to happen in mobile games...
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