[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] iPhone Game Market

[William Volk]

Greystripe is claiming decent CPM's .... $25 and up.

William Volk
CEO, MyNuMo
858 692 1124
The Social Entertainment Company
http://www.mynumo.com

On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Ohad Barzilay wrote:


> iPhone's AppStore is indeed doing well, yet it's still left to see  

> how this can affect the sales of games other then the big  

> publishers. We already have one game on the store and for now we're  

> quite noticeable, but I'm not sure how things will be as more apps  

> joining. It will probably get even more interesting once more apps  

> will become available and we might find ourselves in the same  

> problem we had on operators' catalogs, getting noticed within all  

> the other games around.

>

> I haven't seen figures yet on the Greystripe supported games. Anyone  

> has a clue how well are they doing? How many games out with it and  

> how much did they actually make to the developers?

>

>

>

> From: William Volk [mailto:bvolk at mynumo.com]

> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:03 AM

> To: Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez; Mobile Game Dev SIG Mailing List

> Subject: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] iPhone Game Market

>

> Here's some numbers to chew on.

>

> 60m downloads, probabily 6m paid, $30m in revenue, therefore average  

> price of $5.

>

> Sega Super Monkey Ball generated $3m in gross revenue  from 300k  

> sales at $9.99 a pop.  That means that this title represented 10% of  

> overall sales revenue or 5% of unit sales.

>

> Our title, Remelody, had feature placement for six days we are still  

> waiting for the sales figures from the 1st two weeks of sales, I  

> suspect that is when the bulk of sales occured.  It will be  

> interesting to see.

>

> It may be that the Greystripe Ad Model makes sense for some titles.

>

> Next will be our branded (Kenny Rogers, The Gambler) casino games.   

> More excitement no doubt.

>

> William Volk

> CEO, MyNuMo

> 858 692 1124

> The Social Entertainment Company

> http://www.mynumo.com

>

> On Aug 11, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez wrote:

>

>

> Good to hear people is still listening to this thing. We're also  

> still working on mobile, but we're sort of an impasse due to the  

> mobile market turmoil... namely, iphone + sales being mysteriously  

> low for a just-released game (we released an unlicensed summer games  

> themed game)

>

> Our guess is that it's time to think out of the box for a while. And  

> it's damn scary.

>

>

> 2008/8/11 RSantos <rsantos at escs.ipl.pt>

> I'm also still in business, and working on mobile games.

>

> Mobiles can do 3D graphics, OpenGL ES 2.0 it's almost here, the  

> question is : Are mobile users interested on better graphics on  

> their mobiles ? Or are we developers going again by the way phone  

> manufactures guide us ?

>

>

> Ricardo Flores

>

> Web and Mobile Developer

>

> www.biodroid-entertainment.com

>

> rflores at biodroid-entertainment.com

>

>

>

> From: mobile_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:mobile_games-bounces at igda.org 

> ] On Behalf Of William Volk

> Sent: segunda-feira, 11 de Agosto de 2008 19:29

> To: Mobile Game Development SIG Mailing List

> Subject: Re: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

>

>

> The iPhone's app store is the real deal.  Apple reports 60m  

> downloads, $30m in sales ... all in one month.

>

>

> Check out our 1st title, REMELODY.

>

>

> William Volk

>

> CEO, MyNuMo

>

> 858 692 1124

>

> The Social Entertainment Company

>

> http://www.mynumo.com

>

>

> On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez wrote:

>

>

>

> I'm still here too, but I thought this list was dead.

>

> N-gage's gonna have it tough again I think. Might have been great if  

> it weren't for the iphone App store, but now it looks like its in a  

> tight spot.

>

> Plus, 3D games and a cellphone keyboard were never best friends.  

> Look at a Dualshock and it's no mystery why. 2.5d, 2d with 3d  

> graphics, yeah. Real 3d game, no. Just my oppinion.

>

>

>

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Dan Roy <dangame at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> I'm still on the list, too.

>

> Dan

>

> 2008/8/11 Ohad Barzilay <civax at mobilegd.com>:

>

> > Hi Jason,

> >

> > Well, I know *I'm* here.

> > And I've already posted about the event on MobileGD.

> >

> > Ohad.

> >

> >

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Jason Della Rocca [mailto:jason at igda.org]

> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:14 AM

> > To: mobile_games at igda.org

> > Subject: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

> >

> > Hi,

> >

> > Not sure who's still getting this list... Anyway, we just posted  

> some

> > contest info from Nokia in the IGDA's July newsletter. Thought it

> > worthwhile to share here:

> >

> >

> > *******************************************

> > This is your change to get your game concept published by Nokia! Top

> > three entries will be offered a Nokia Publishing pre-production

> > contract and cash prizes totalling US$100,000 to support further

> > development of their concepts!

> >

> > Submitting your concept is very easy, no code is needed, just a

> > concept description and visualization. For more information, visit:

> > http://insider.n-gage.com/innovation

> >

> > Deadline for submissions is 20th of August, 2008!

> > *******************************************

> >

> > Regards,

> >        Jason

> >

> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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> >

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