The marketshare of mobile gaming
Posted Jan 25th 2007 5:02PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Software, Applications
Mobile gaming and related downloads is an extremely profitable business and probably ranks up there in terms of ringtone downloads as a gooser for revenue among mobile carriers -- and game publishers.
Check this -- the revenue level from mobile games reached $500 million in 2006 within just the U.S. alone -- that's quite large, eh?
This represents about 30 to 30% year-over-year growth -- and the rate is not expected to slow down as carriers keep pressing customers to their content and as more subscribers access mobile content on higher-speed handsets (now that it is finally tolerable). No wonder
someone bought Jamdat.
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