The future of gaming? Mobile games company honcho David Gosen says it is, brace yerself, mobile phones. A quote from the man:

If you look at the console industry, over 300 million consoles have been sold in the last 25 years, while 800 million phones get sold every year. Which one's mass market? It has to be the mobile device.

Look at that logic, folks. LOOK AT IT. It continues:

In terms of revenues, of course, console's far greater, but more games will be played on mobile than they will on console.

Okay, okay. We're giving David a hard time. I mean, he did toil at Nintendo of Europe during the GameCube era. And he is a CEO of a cell phone game company. So, he knows his stuff! Says David:

Although console's been successful, it's been successful for a pretty tightly defined niche of players. I think that's perhaps starting to change, and will take time, but mobile is true mass market.

Guess who left Nintendo before the DS and the Wii went on sale? Anyhoo, my two cents: People don't want Swiss Army knives. There are tons of MP3 playing cell phones, yet the iPod still reigns. Samsung figured out how to get a 10 megapixel camera on a cell phone (or vice versa), yet there's still a strong demand for digital cameras. Cell phone gaming is a viable market, but as the DS proves, it's not the most important. Now, if Nintendo made mobile phones... Brian Ashcraft

Cell Phone Gaming FTW? [GamesIndustry]

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