The survey, prepared for PopCap, says that there are over 125 million people playing mobile games in the UK and US, and the time spent playing on these devices outweighs that of traditional consoles by some margin.
46% of all time spent playing videogames is on a mobile device.
The biggest share is phones (at 33%) and consoles were down at just 18%, showing that the market has moved significantly over the last few years.
“Mobile games continue to vie with social games as the hottest sector of the video game industry and that trend shows no sign of waning,” stated Dennis Ryan, VP of Worldwide Publishing at PopCap.
“Smartphone adoption continues apace and tablet adoption has added considerable fuel to the fire.”
36% of mobile gamers now own a tablet device like Apple’s iPad, and 74% of those didn’t play mobile games before getting one.
DirtyHabit
I love how riled up people get over these surveys :)
Keep calm
and
game on.
ico
Talk about obvious. Could have paid me a fiver to do a survey down the high street and I’d have come out with a similar result. One of these days these so called experts will realise that console gaming is very different to mobile gaming. It’s called buttons people.