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IDC: US houses 50 million players by 2010
January 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Research firm IDC has questioned it’s consumer base about mobile gaming and turned up with a lot of interesting news. From the US consumers they questioned, 11% bought a game in Q3 2006. This is a whole lot better then the average 5% we hear from other reports. On average the consumers are below 24 and spent on average $ 13 on mobile gaming. According to IDC, 75%+ was for one off payments, meaning subscriptions still don’t have a big ground in the US. By the end of the decade, IDC predicts 1/3 will be subscription based though. The price of subscription based games will rise more then $ 2,50. The fine details can be read here.
PG’s 10 trends for 2007
January 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
The guys at PocketGamer might have taken a good look at the forecasts we published earlier as they published their top 10 trends for 2007. The big number one is of course ad funded mobile games, but their list features surprises like LBS gaming as well.
Happy 2007
December 30th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »
I will post this now as I will not come round to doing it the coming 2 days. On behalf of all editors on The Mobile Games Blog, I wish you all a great 2007. As most of you probably remember our 2007 forecast editorial a few weeks back, we have pasted below the forecasts that came in after the publishing date.
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Exclusive: Trip Hawkins about latest licensing developments
December 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Lately we released a few posts about Digital Chocolate working on licensed games. As Tip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Chocolate always openly pursued original IP as a main driver for the company instead of licensing, this seemed to be a weird move. Curious as we are, we contacted him and asked why Digital Chocolate is making these deals.
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Glu’s European expansion
December 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
After opening new offices in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, Glu is on track to open some more in order to expand their market coverage. Glu announced it has opened offices is France and Germany to get a better fix on those markets. Also the London office has been relocated to fit their expansion.
Konami’s mobile demo portal
December 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
US Consumers can now download a free portal application from Konami mobile. The application allows consumers to browse the portfolio and try the mobile games. Konami hopes to lower the barrier of buying their mobile games.
Gameloft Connect, a new channel is born
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 2 Comments »
Another initiative to attract consumer loyalty has been launched by Gameloft last weekend under the name Gameloft Connect. The service acts as an iTunes for mobile games and of course we gave it a small test drive.
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Accounting in mobile games; a big pain
December 14th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
MobileIndustry has an interesting editorial about the problems in accounting for mobile. Even though our business model is much simpler, it seems we can’t avoid making mistakes in reporting. The only thing I miss is an estimation of the average size of unreported downloads.
David Goosen: Mobile to overtake consoles
December 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
In a article related to their interview with David Goosen, CEO of I-Play, MobileIndustry dives deeper into the mobile vs. console topic. David compares the number of consoles on the market over the past 25 years (300M) and mobile sold every year (800M). Reading these numbers, it only makes sense to say that IP owners can earn more on the mobile market even though the revenues are much smaller.
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