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Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over by tomtheelder on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @03:27PM (#22048914)
I think this is at least partly a generational thing. Kids and teenagers seem to be much more willing than my peers to play demanding games on mobile, and to play them in public.

It sort of makes sense, since anyone my age or older didn't _really_ have access to serious mobile games growing up.

Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:58PM (#22051119)
I grew up while android/ipads were starting to take off and spent a lot of my childhood playing fruit ninja and minecraft pocket edition. Now I'm >20 and I don't have a single game on my phone. I'm not sure what changed but I just don't have any desire to play light/casual games anymore. On the bus I am happy to just sit there with noise canceling headphones and think. Then when I get home I'll spend an hour on a VR game.
Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over by Pfhreak on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @03:48PM (#22049091)
Hey! My gameboy was a screen with 2 bits of color depth! What's not serious about that? :D
Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over by usrusr on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:38PM (#22051325)
Good point actually, but that almost (?) two decades wide gap between mainstream gameboy mobile playing and the iPhone was quite an opportunity to drop the habit. Well, there was Nokia snake.
Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over by jbc1 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:02PM (#22050853)
I was in Singapore recently and regularly saw adults smashing away at games while on the train.