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| New report about mobile game market A new report from Screen Digest, 'Wireless Gaming Business Models ? Opportunities for publishers, developers and network operators' has also found that Japan and Korea, once regarded as the power houses of the mobile games industry, have seen their position eroded. During 2005, the Western markets of Europe and in particular the US have seen rapid growth ? now accounting for 52 percent of mobile games revenues. Unlike the console or PC gaming markets, the mobile games sector is dominated by specialist players ? currently most of the big games publishers don't feature strongly. Jamdat of the US and Gameloft of France accounted for almost 30% of games download revenues in the US and Europe during 2004. At the same time, as previously reported by Screen Digest, venture capital has been flowing into the mobile gaming industry at a rapid rate, with ?425m being invested in the market since 1999. With worldwide games revenues forecast to hit ?7bn by 2010 and games enabled handsets to increase to 2 billion, it's perhaps easy to understand this high level of investment. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Game News :: home page |