2. The mobile game genre essentially
began in the early 1990s when
calculator producers, such as Texas
Instruments, began to embed the now
ubiquitous Snake game in their
devices.
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3. The “newer generation” of people spend a lot of time
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4. According to the UN International Telecommunications
Union, there are currently 6.8 billion mobile phone
subscriptions in the world – almost as many
subscriptions as there are people
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5. There were only 1 billion
subscriptions in 2002…
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6. Mobile gaming
is growing
so fast that
it’s expanding
the traditional
video game
industry far beyond its old borders.
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7. The $66 billion video game industry is scrambling to devise games and
experimenting with ways to appeal to a generation of players that spends more
time on mobile devices than on computers or consoles.
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9. Mobile games could
drive the whole game
software industry’s
revenues to $100
billion by 2017,
making it one of the
most lucrative
sectors for
entertainment and
software
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10. In 2007, when Apple Inc launched the iPhone, there
were but a handful of developers. Today, there are
hundreds, whose apps sell across the globe on Apple
and Google Inc's Android devices.
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11. The new touchscreen interface offered new and
accessible ways to play games on the phone
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12. The App Store revolutionized the sector by establishing an
easily-accessed direct connection between developers and
consumers that bypasses publishers and phone operators.
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13. Even major companies such as Disney,
Viacom, USA Network, and Marvel
Entertainment have launched mobile
games in an effort to engage their
respective target audiences
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14. Consumers have taken
full advantage of the
new access, downloading
more than 50 billion apps
since the App Store’s
launch in 2008.
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15. In recent years, the model has been to offer games for free, then
encourage players to spend real money on in-game purchases - a system
perfected by Zynga in its online games
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16. Asia is becoming the biggest driver of
economic value in mobile and online games
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18. With major game publishers once again
rethinking their relationships with the sector,
mobile games will play no small role in the
computer and video game industry’s
continued evolution.
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19. “For casual and hardcore audiences alike, this new gaming world promises a future
that benefits from cross-device integration and embedded social networks. For
game developers, this unique set of circumstances is set to be the catalyst for
boundless creativity.” – Christoph Zeh
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