IMAGES SUPPORTED BY GOOGLEPlaying video games has been a major type of entertainment for a long time. Everyone could play games, from elementary kids to office workers. It also doesn't have a border of how to play, since we could play game on arcades in gamezones, on a luxury PlayStation 4 at home. It could even be a gaming laptop or a handheld system like Nintendo 3DS.
To reach a wider range of audience, videogame continues to search for a certain platform, which has vast affection to the general users. Not until 5 years ago it could attain the solid answer: smartphones. Playing games on cellphones isn't a new conception, but we could hardly define anything better than "Tetris"or "Snake".
Gradually, with the better technologies, the once well-known PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) have finally evolved into smartphones - and turn the history of mobile games a new leaf. We here at Vietgame.asia would like to share our point of view about 5 reasons that we play mobile games.
1. TONS OF FREE GAMES
Most of Vietnamese gamers are in the range of middle-schoolers to college students, and so the price to buy genuine games is definitely a headache. Common gaming platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo... sell games with expensive prices, and even the "God of Steam" on PC - who always offers a lot of great deals - couldn't satisfy the thirst for games.Unconsciously, they began to search for a viable method, and all came to the conclusion of mobile games - since there's no other platforms which offer as many free games as this. Unanonymously, we all agree that Free-To-Play games actually benefit from In-App Purchase, but in general, they all could be played for free, as long as you don't intend to invest your wallet seriously.
There's also the piracy problems, since the system security level of common OS of mobile, such as iOS and Android, is very low. Even amateurs could hack into the core system of a smartphone after a few attempts - and that make the games on mobile platform, especially Android system, completely FREE.
Even amateurs could hack into the core system of a smartphone after a few attempts - and that make the games on mobile platform completely FREE
2. ABSOLUTE CONVENIENCE
You can say that video games are addictive on the same level of drugs. The urge to play games could emerge anytime: between classes, meals, when travelling and even when you're answering the "Call of Nature". In those time of crisis, the luxury of a PC or a console definitely is out of the question - while handheld systems such as PlayStation Vita or Nintendo 3DS takes too long to boot up.
In that case, the obvious choice is a smartphone with a lot of games, and most of them could be played almost instantly after a few touches. And the genres are all casual, so we could stop playing at anytime and doesn't really need to reach a checkpoint.
There's no other platform that allows us to play games just by one hand - or even, one finger, like mobile systems
People always say that playing games on mobile doesn't have the "real" sensation, due to the lack of physical activities on touchscreens. Actually, there's no other platform that allows us to play games just by one hand - or even, one finger, like mobile systems. We can easily spot a student writing her lessions while secretly playing Candy Crush Saga beneath the table, or a guy on bus playing Flappy Bird with his arm around the safety pole.
