[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Future of mobile games

[Alexandre Luiz Galvão Damasceno]

Hi all,

I saw last year's TOP 50 games (according ELSPA) and the speech of Trip 
Hawkins in GDC, and I went to sleep with a question biting my head last 
night: Is there a future for original mobile games?

As we can see, most of downloaded games are adaptations from Console/PC 
games or those using TV show brands. As Hawkins said, only 5% of mobile 
customer download a game and, coincidentally, 5% of mobile customers are 
console/PC gamers (or ex-gamers). Maybe that would explain why the most 
downloaded games are remakes of console/PC ones.

We know that it is too expensive to keep getting brands to create a new 
game. Only big companies, like EA, Ubisoft and others, that already got 
their own big brands, do not have big costs to worry with.

So, I would like to listen to some opinions about this.

PS: The article can be found at:
http://www.mobileindustry.biz/article.php?article_id=2327

PS2: The ELSPA article can be found at: 
http://mobilegames.blogs.com/mobile_games_blog/2007/01/elspas_2006_lis.html

Thanks and best regards,

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Alexandre Luiz G. Damasceno
Meantime Mobile Creations - CESAR
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Recife/Brazil