The mobile gaming market: The current status and future compared to other gaming platforms

Today, smartphones have become a necessity for everyone. It is used by people of all ages, regardless of whether they are children or the elderly. For this reason, it is more accessible than other gaming platforms. Mobile games have become a platform where people can spend time comfortably while having fun in daily life and it has also become one of the most popular gaming platforms of our time. This thesis contains information about observing events that led to the significant development of mobile games especially cryptocurrency mining, chip crisis and COVID-19. Also, the thesis contains information about how it may follow a path compared to other gaming platforms in order to make a prediction about the improvement of the mobile game industry in the future. The topics mentioned in this thesis will be useful for many people such as game designers, developers and phone manufacturers to produce ideas that are suitable for them. The first part of the thesis provides an in-depth analysis of how the mobile, PC and console platforms led to the emergence of games and how these events happened. The empirical part of the thesis includes the interpretation of the developments of mobile, PC and console platforms over the years with the effect of cryptocurrency mining, chip problem and COVID-19 taking into account the graphics given in the figures. In addition, the empirical part composed of a quantitative questionnaire about to examine and analyze people's attitudes towards mobile games now and in the future. The data analysis was done descriptively. Keywords: Mobile Platform, PC Platform, Console Platform, Game Platforms, Smartphones, Comparison of Gaming Platforms, COVID-19, Chip Crisis, Criptocurrency Mining