[casual_games] Casual Download Games: New Releases by PlayMechanic

[James C. Smith]

Russell is right. 'Other' is not a very strong contributor to the best
selling games.  My original post was focusing on the number of new games
REASED.  I assumed it was common knowledge that the Hidden Object and Time
management games make up most of the sales on casual games portals.  I was
pointing out that people have not stopped making other games, and portals
still release other games, but hardly anyone buys them.  

 

--James

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Russell Carroll
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:10 AM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Download Games: New Releases by
PlayMechanic

 

It's true that the strongest game type is 'Other' if you are looking at pure
volume of games being released.

However, looking at the link provided, i 

 

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