Mobile Multiplayer Not “Killer App” — EA

Mike McCabe, Director of mobile content at EA Mobile Asia, has given an interview about mobile gaming in general, and in India specifically. Most of the comments are the normal ones you hear about mobile games, but he did pooh-pooh the promise of multi-gaming.
“Gaming in India will soon from localization to culturalization. “Multi-gaming is not really a killer application. A lot of people new to mobile games will want an isolated experience and not want to play in a community,” said McCabe at the 2nd Annual Mobile Gaming Conference in Mumbai recently.”
The article also says: “As of now most games in the market pertain to action and heavy 3D content, but today there is a market for casual games.” I don’t think this is true…I don’t have any figures on the number of different types of games on the market, but the sales figures normally have casual gaming at the top, and media attention has been pretty big on that too. It could be refering to India, I suppose.

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