Quote Originally Posted by retroguy View Post
I don't care what the marketers say, cell phones are NOT game consoles and NEVER WILL BE and trying to convince people that they are is idiotic in the extreme. Before I quit reading, I could tell the EGM reviewers thought so too and were faking their enthusiasm for the Iphone games they reviewed because they were obligated to. I felt kind of sorry for them.

Now I'm perfectly willing to accept that phones and tablets can coexist alongside real gaming machines, but the day they replace them is the day I abandon gaming forever and stick to retro stuff only.
I think that you're missing the point though. As I said earlier, most casual gamers don't want to carry two devices with them. A hardcore gamer may but a casual gamer will generally be just as happy playing a casual game on their phone while they're on the bus or waiting for something. People on the go didn't have an option before. Now they do. And besides, its not like Apple or Samsung are claiming that their phones are game consoles or marketing them that way. People just know that they can do games.