Textually has picked up on a WSJ story on mobile games, with some interesting figures. The number of mobile phones which can download games has risen from 83 million in November last year to 112 million in August this year. Out of 63 million people playing mobile games in the US 16 million paid for the games in August, compared to 12 million in January. “Yankee Group estimates that revenue from cellphone gaming in the U.S. totaled $41.6 million in 2003 and will hit about $1 billion in 2009 — still small compared with the gaming industry…But cellphone gaming is one of few wireless data services that is growing across a broad consumer base.”
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