[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Future of mobile games

[DrDon]

IMHO - the killer-app game for mobile has yet to be made (as many point
out).

dd

� wrote:

> 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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