08-15-2002, 07:57 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Games, games, games
Not too long ago staff from software houses Handango and PocketGear was interviewed and one of the questions was about what drives their revenues. Both answered: games.
The answer confirms the market picture painted by the article "Wireless Games The Next Internet Goldmine". According to the article, the global mobile game industry generated US$436.4 million in revenues last year. Some analysts even digs up the long forgotten term "Internet goldmine". The figure below illustrates future revenue predictions from some research companies. Although all of them have failed miserably in almost all of their past wireless predictions before (WAP, 3G etc), I think they have a better grasp this time. I don't doubt wireless gaming will mean as much, if not more, to the mobile computing market as gaming does to the PC market.
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08-15-2002, 01:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Huh?
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...global mobile game industry generated US$436.4 million in revenues last year.
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Huh?...How did they get this figure? You mean all those games on the pocket pc and palm generated about $436.4 million ? I find that hard to believe. I think mobile gaming is in its infancy still. No way making that kind of money. Unless they're counting gameboy games.
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08-15-2002, 03:22 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 390
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*blank stare*
how can they extrapolate number in 2008 from such meager data? I never understand this bit of sourcery.
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08-15-2002, 03:35 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Totally with you. And what's with those decimals? :lol:
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