January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »
The coming time, Today’s Gamers will be releasing a lot of interesting information about the international (mobile gamer). Today, we cover stats from the United Kingdom.
According to the survey (conducted by TNS and GamesIndustry.com), the UK has 8 million mobile gamers and most of them pay for their games. The age of these gamers is 8+. 39% of them are aged between 20 and 34. 53% of the mobile gamers in the UK are male.
The full report contains much more details on this and other markets.
Get the full report from TodaysGamers.com.
This is bullocks. Quite frankly.
What, do the other percentage uses non-paid games? Do they not play at all? Do they hack their way into the servers of reputed mobile game distributors and illegally download the games they want using their bandwidth?
It’s pretty obvious that so many of Apple (i.e. iPhone) users pay for games: they buy iPhones because they want to play, while the people who want their phone for everyday humble use prefer to spend less, and, thus, don’t pay for games because they don’t play.
And remember all: it is illegal to share products that are not yours to share (such as copyrighted games). It is illegal to buy or accept games from entities that you know cannot sell or give those games. It is NOT illegal to buy or accept games from entities that you DON’T know don’t possess the rights to those games. Just as it’s not illegal to buy, say, Tower Bloxx for 2