January 11th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »
Movaya has analysed recent blog posts, industry analysis and inside
rumours. Based on that, the company expects 2008 to be the year that
mobile gaming will break through.
There are a number of reasons why this would happen. First of, mobile gaming sales growth is stronger than most consoles. Mobile publishers are engaging in more off-deck sales activities (though Gameloft just terminated their iTunes-like project), Verizon introduces ‘any app, any device’, iPhone users show that games matter, Google launches Android, an open source mobile OS, the US market grew 24% in the past 12 months and the international market is expected the double.
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Hmmm I’m not so sure personally that this will happen until 2009 perhaps?
Yesterday, I made my entire back catalogue FREE (ad-wrapped) for direct sales from our own site given that ad-wrapped sofwtare makes me more revenue than usual partners on average now – that is a true sign of the times to come I feel. Consumers don’t appear to want to pay for mobile entertainment snacks anymore and I hope to the same with PC content in 2008 into 2009.