mobile game sales – Fearless Gamer https://www.fearlessgamer.com Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:30:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Apple bursts the mobile gaming bubble https://www.fearlessgamer.com/2010/03/23/apple-bursts-the-mobile-gaming-bubble/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:30:30 +0000 https://www.fearlessgamer.com/?p=1378 Flurry iPhone games chart.Just look at the green slice on that pie chart. That’s exactly where Sony wishes the PSP was. Instead, it’s Apple. Yes, Apple. I never thought I would see the day that a computer manufacturer was stealing mobile market share from Nintendo but here we are. In just 21 months Apple has managed to snag 19% of the mobile market by revenue.

It’s a pretty impressive stat, considering the lower price of software for the iPhone OS. Can you imagine the number of transactions involved? The really bad news in this story is for Sony, whose revenues are down almost 50% from last year. The PSP Go was obviously not a hit – not that anyone expected it to be – and there hasn’t been much in the way of software to encourage any newcomers to the platform.

As far as total revenue goes, the iPhone OS is now 5% of the total market share, including consoles. If that’s not something for Apple to be happy about, I don’t know what it would take.

Source: Flurry

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