iPhone Pushes Mobile Gaming To $5.4 Billion

Thanks to smartphones like Apple's iPhone 3G, mobile gaming rose 20% and hit $5.4 billion in 2008, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. Information Week reports.

The report said overall game downloads were flat in the U.S. and Western European markets, but volumes rose in developing markets like India and China. While Java-based games saw a steep decline, those volumes were offset by a sharp increase of iPhone game downloads.

... The report also said that more than half of games downloaded by 2012 will be funded by advertising.

emily | 7:44 AM | Random Stats, SMS and Gaming |
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