Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-679780-20191013143504

In Sammy's defence, The Sega Saturn does have a great library of games however Sega marketed their games that were imported from the Arcade. Even Sega's most popular arcade franchises such as Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter or The House of the Dead consist of you feeding money or tokens into the machine in order to continue playing. Importing of Arcade games continued over to the Dreamcast and ironically these Arcade games still have a ground following to this day. So Sammy who originally made Arcade games moving onto phone games is a rather logical step.

Phone games are just more elaborate arcade games you can carry in your pocket. The only difference is micropaying to buy in-game tokens instead of buying tokens at arcade.

(The South Park episode "Freemium Isn't Free" better explains it than I can.)