Mobile game players exceed number of console game players.
The A. T. Kearney study, reported by The Economist (13 Nov 2004, p.78), tells us that the number of people who downloaded games now stands at 10% of the 1.7b mobile users. "The fragmented mobile-games industry is consolidating fast, and there are more higher quality games base don big franchises such as Spider-Man [...] Most tellingly of all, the big boys are moving in".
This year, the value of mobile gaming is expected to exceed US$1b for the first time. In India alone the gaming market is going to be worth US$26m by the end of the year, according to analysis reported by The BBC.
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