The eight games that could help establish Android TV in the living room where the Ouya failed. Is it a viable contender to the big three?
Phil writes, "I've grown to admire mobile gaming a lot by understanding that the majority of games put on Apple and Google's marketplaces are not those riddled with ads, ways to manipulate the player into spending massive amounts of money, or loaded with gacha elements. There are some truly fine games on the mobile market, and more impressive is the fact that traditional gaming experiences can play and do well on smartphones and tablets.
One such game comes from Taiwanese studio Rayark, who delivered a skill-based, action-intensive hack and slash game with Implosion: Never Lose Hope. Now the game has been ported to a home console for the first time with this Nintendo Switch version. My fear going into the game was that it wouldn't be properly appropriated for the Switch hardware. Thankfully, this fear was for naught, as Implosion: Never Lose Hope on Nintendo Switch is a fantastic indie game."
Nintendo Insider writes:
It may not be as pretty, deep and fluid as the bigger titles it aspires to be, but it definitely did take me by surprise with how much I actually enjoyed it. With its fair price tag and replayability hook, Implosion happens to be a great little bit on the side.
"Implosion: Never Lose Hope is the best current example of an “indie” title that looks and plays like a AAA game"
I'm hooked on this game on chapter 4 and i'm not stopping till i've beaten. I would of been happy paying £20 but its £10!!! considering the price it deserves this score.
Goldie kicked my arse first time, then I changed my set up and beat her and got 2 badges 😎 i'm currently on 35 badges
No, its not. Until mobile games have depth and massive budgets, its not.
Mobile games will never have depth because they arent designed for the core gaming market they are meant to be quick cash grabs and cash cows that siphon money of the more casual gamers looking for a timesink that they can siphon money off of over a period of time. As such this will never happen a few people will buy it for the games if they're addicted othwrs will buy for tv features and maybe experiment with the games. It might however lead to them entering the proper core gaming market in the future with an xbox, pc, ps# or whatever nintendo have out at the time...
People who say that Android TV will not have an impact on console gaming and could take some serious marketshare are blind to how special Android TV is and Android L to take them to a position to simply dominate the TV business.
Now that doesn't suddenly mean console will be gone but Android TV will be a serious competitor in this space. I mean they took over the mobile world in 6 years.
It will happen eventually but probably not within the decade (iOS/Android devices as part of the PC/Console multiplatforms).
I'd rather have "Handheld PCs" (x86 SteamBoys) in 2015/2016 and Nano PCs to play more higher quality titles from Steam/Origin/GoG/etc.
.. and just keep an iOS/Android phone for touch-screen optimized games.
I'd instantly get one if SE'd make a high budget Parasite Eve 3 Android exclusive (for at least 3 years) but that is far from likely to happen.