The growing popularity of games in smart phones make console game companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony worried. They feel threatened by the pattern of current trends in mobile gaming.
Naturally, they feel worried. According to latest data released by iSuppli, 80 percent more applications that are downloaded by the user device is a handheld game. This means, most of the smart phone is also used to play this game.
According to Gartner research, global revenue from mobile games, including games for smartphones, will be an increase of 19 percent or folded into the $ 3, 6 billion. In fact, this number will continue to grow to USD11, 4 billion in 2014.
“The conventional console companies have to rack my brain so they can keep their customers,” Gartner wrote in his statement, quoted by PC World, Monday (08/23/2010).
Especially in the year 2011 is estimated to be 5 percent decrease in sales across all gaming consoles. Sales of Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 from Microsoft and Nintendo’s Wii is still the flagship of this industry. however, interest in Apple’s iPhone continues to increase rapidly.
“Number of players in the U.S. use the smartphone game has risen 60 percent since February 2009 to the same month this year,” added the study from ComScore.
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