[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] US Deck

[Spencer Nelson]

Jorge,

 

The decks are run by the carriers (ie: Sprint, Verizon, etc.) so they
are also the ones holding the keys here.  I'm not in the marketing/sales
side of things, but as far as I'm aware we are (regrettably) still
having to go direct to the carriers in order to get deck placement.

 

Best of luck,

 

Spencer Nelson

 

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From: mobile_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:mobile_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Gonzalez
Sanchez
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:42 PM
To: mobile_games at igda.org
Subject: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] US Deck

 

I suppose most of you who know a lot about this (or help built it) will
be reluctant to answer such a thing, but we are kind of discovering this
"deck" thing on the US market (we never sold our products there and it's
the first time we hear of such a thing). 

 

My question is... is it possible to get a good quality, lenghty, feature
packed, game on deck even if it bears no license?

 

And the second question is, what is the name of the companies which hold
the gates to this "deck", since in the US 'content aggregators' don't
seem to matter a lot. Not the companies themselves, but the name of the
type of company, so as too google up for them. We've talked to a number
of US companies, but it was always a dead end. 

 

The US and Brazil are weird markets, and we haven't been able to break
in them so far (We are selling in brazil, through a main channel, but
the sales are almost non-existant, compared to the size and activity of
their market) 

 

cheers,

 

PD: William, you are right about "the interface is the game". If the
interface is cumbersome, the game is broken and hence no fun. You can
see that easily in 3D softwhere, whereas people using the good ones have
fun doing stuff, while the ones using crappier software get angry and
confused at the UI all the time. Both want to do the same, and know that
the fun is there, but one of them sees it too far off and ends up
quitting. 

 

Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez
Blue River S.A.
TEL. +54 (11) 4777-9431
MOV. +54 (911) 6167-5412 

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