Is Mobile Gaming Industry Booming?

Global Industry Analysts are predicting the mobile games market will top $20 billion by 2010. GIA thinks that java-based games, 3D games and Bluetooth games are amongst the popular ones. Earlier this month Gartner predicted that the global mobile games market would hit $9.6 billion by 2011, and yesterday iSuppli predicted the total mobile content market would hit $44 billion by 2011.

Trying to work out the true size of the potential mobile games market is extremely difficult. When you compare industry trends, sometimes it seems like the games market is dying off as less people spend money on subscription-based services, whilst at the same time more traditional games developers are moving into the mobile space with well known brands, often licensing these games to carriers rather than through subscription or single sale portals.

Source: Mobile weblog