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Of course traditional gaming has a future. The casual market may be bigger, but the video game industry was very lucrative even before gaming went mainstream. This combined with the fact that the best mobile game so far is pretty much an evolved version of a demo game from Basic, makes me wonder why anyone doubts the longevity of traditional gaming. Casual and mobile games are time killers. Very few of them have much depth and half of the games that do have depth also have horrible controls. As of now, no one has figured out a way to implement decent controls on a touchscreen unless the genre just happens to be particularly suited for tapping and swiping.

From a business standpoint, casual games are very profitable. But from a gamers perspective, they almost always disappoint.