Mobile phones are becoming very competent and popular mobile gaming platforms. According to the largest third party application store, mobile games were 25% of all apps sold for the first half of 2009. That is a 6% increase from 2008.
According to Handango’s report, Android was one of the most popular gaming platforms for mobile devices. Games in the Android catalog accounted for a larger percentage of sales than they did in other smartphone catalogs.
Android isn’t alone in being a popular gaming platform. Handango also said that RIM’s Blackberry line was popular with mobile gamers, 36% of all apps sold for the device were games. The growth of mobile gaming is no surprise to me. We always have our phones on us for the most part and games are a great way to kill some time.
[via InformationWeek]
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if game sales are high i think it's a fluke of people searching for a decent game with good visuals. i've gone through at least 100 games only to uninstall them disappointed.
The graphics are great
Armadillo roll has cool graphics but gameplay isn't much
if game sales are high i think it's a fluke of people searching for a decent game with good visuals. i've gone through at least 100 games only to uninstall them disappointed.
I don't think Android is doing too bad for a new platform, it's already giving Blackberry, WinMo, and Symbian a run for their money. It's probably the only OS that has a chance of overtaking the iPhone OS.
Your only control options are touchscreen, trakball or keyboard... all of which are pretty clunky.
Look at a PSP, or even a sidekick (which, i hate to say, had better games back in 2007 than the g1 does now)
they are setup for two handed control with gaming.
We need an android device with a good Dpad on the opposite side of the trakball, and some corner buttons too..
cell phones are not meant to be stand alone gaming systems they are a phone first and everything else is a plus
A mile stone for Android
there is no way android games are better than iphone games. it's very misleading.
Your only control options are touchscreen, trakball or keyboard... all of which are pretty clunky.
Look at a PSP, or even a sidekick (which, i hate to say, had better games back in 2007 than the g1 does now)
they are setup for two handed control with gaming.
We need an android device with a good Dpad on the opposite side of the trakball, and some corner buttons too..
Here's a video of our latest game, Light Racer 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoeuLShzkXg
We're starting on a new one that should have better graphics yet. We've also figured out some really interesting gameplay options using the combo of the touch screen and the buttons for two-handed play.
I'm hoping that our next few titles will really show off the graphics capabilities of the phone and show how good gameplay can get for Android.
BTW - If you guys have suggestions for games or ideas on how to use the phone better for playability, please let me know.
Thanks!