@ oohhboy
I agree with all your points there!
There are many other reasons why I think (hope) smartphones will never win over handheld gaming consoles:
*You need to upgrade hardware more often and at a much higher cost than handhelds. ($200 iTouch every 2 years, no thanks)
*They are exclusively online yet have poor online connectivity for games. GameCentre is joke.
*A big downside for me is not being able to rent/borrow/lend or trade in games.
*Constant updates to iOS games to fix bugs or to make them work with the multiple OS's available are annoying too. With the 3DS (etc) we're all in the same boat, same OS, same speed, same game catalogue. (I'm referring to how certain new games don't work on Gen1 or 2 devices)
As for social network games, they're years away from even being considered as games in my eyes, like you said, I get paid for work usually, not the other way around!
Hehe, didn't realise we'd inadvertently created a Manzai duo, do you have any suggestions for names we could go by?