While Nokia smartphones have more market share in China then other brands, the problem is that Chinese do not want to pay for games. Too bad.

BTW, “Nokia Snake is on more machines than any other video game in the world.” So what?

Good to see that I have got you to understand Moore’s Law a little better now after your ill informed comments on other articles.

“A billion new smartphones is a billion new computers connected to the internet. It is also a billion new gaming machines. Every year.”

Whilst I agree with you that the emerging smartphone market is huge and only going to get a whole lot bigger you are wrong about assuming that because X amount of smartphones are sold that means the same number are going to be internet connected and used for games.

At present many smartphones are used by business people and people who don’t like playing games on them. Let’s face it, most people in the developed world would prefer to sit in their lounge using their full size screens, not their mobile phone – so if they do want to be playing games on their phones it’s when they’re travelling or waiting for something with nothing else to do.

I don’t really see how this market is going to have much effect on home gaming (consoles and PC). (For those that pay for games) mobile games simple cannot afford to be priced at the same level as console games as they are not used as much and are percieved, rightly or wrongly, to have much less value than a “full” console game. People can live without gaming entertainment on the way to work in other words much more than they can live without gaming on the couch – so I don’t see much money being taken away from non-mobile systems frankly. The experience simply isn’t the same and you don’t get the same fanatical following of avid gamers for mobile based games – at least not yet I supposed I should add, who know what the future will hold.