Mobile Games Growing Up

Mobile games passed the US$1 bn revenue mark in 2004, apparently an important point. “According to a briefing note by senior Ovum analyst Dario Betti, mobile games initially suffered from the unexpected and widely publicised success of ringtones and logos. “It is difficult to stand out while your ‘older brother’ has gained plenty of notoriety,” he said…”However, we are not talking about an industry comparable to the huge market for PC and console games, which is worth about US$23 bn. The mobile games market is just waking up to interest from players from the mobile, games and media industry: it should grow to about US$5.3bn by 2008″.

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