Mobile mah-jongg a $3.8 billion game

The global mobile phone gaming market more than doubled in 2003 to $587 million from a year earlier and is expected to grow six-fold to $3.8 billion in 2007, according to estimates from Informa Media Research in London and reported by News.com.

"Growth rates in Japan--where one in every nine people has played a video game on his or her mobile phone--are starting to flatten, but the U.S. market is beginning to take off.

In the U.S., wireless carrier, Sprint PCS has had 3.5 million game downloads already in 2004, and it expects to have its first phone to support 3D graphics sometime later this year."

emily | 8:58 AM | SMS and Gaming |
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