Though still in its infancy, mobile gaming is already a billion dollar industry in the US, reports In-Stat. With significant momentum already underway in the US and worldwide, In-Stat believes that mobile gaming will continue to be a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues, the high-tech market research firm says. Still, the industry has significant challenges.
"The mobile gaming development industry is highly fragmented due to the wide variety of mobile operating systems, available handsets, and lack of industry standardization," says Jill Meyers, In-Stat analyst. "This fragmentation has resulted in mobile developers and publishers making the difficult decision of spending finite resources developing games on the platforms they believe will have the best chance of success."
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
Posted to the site on 14th October 2008
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