mobile gaming statistics Archives

The number of mobile gamers in the United States has broken the 100 million mark

03/31/201203/31/2012 Sam Lambert

Newzoo, an international market research firm, has released a new report that is drawing attention to the rapidly growing popularity of gaming over mobile devices. It was entitled “Mobile Games Trend Report”, and it showed that the number of people in the United States who use their smartphone, tablet computer, or iPod Touch mobile devices for playing video games is now greater than 100 million. What Newzoo found was that among the American gamers who played on their mobile devices, 69 percent used their smartphones, while 21 percent were using…

The older the gamer, the more is spent on virtual products

12/23/201112/23/2011 L. Green

MocoSpace, a mobile gaming community, has released the results of its survey that has shown that the older a person is, the greater the odds that he or she will purchase products in mobile social games, and the more they wills spend on those goods. The report indicated that gamers between the ages of 25 and 35 spend a larger amount of time using their mobile devices to play social games, but that it is the gamers over the age of 45 who spend the greatest amount of money on…

Why Google+ strategies are making Apple and Facebook sweat

08/15/201108/15/2011 Jesse Collins

Google has dipped its toe into the videogame pool, in a move that is making both the current leaders in next generation game platforms, Apple and Facebook, nervous. Moreover, they should be sweating as Google moves forward in its efforts to move beyond the current sales cut of 30 percent which has become typical with Apple and Google. Punit Soni, the product manager for Google+ Games stated in an interview that Google will begin by sharing 95 percent of its virtual goods revenues which are sold with the developers, therefore…