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In this Industry Report
There has been little change in the trend at the top of the mobile games market in Q3 2009. As in Q2 2009, EA Mobile reported record sales and maintained its lead as the world's number one mobile games publisher. French publisher Gameloft also reported year-on-year growth. It remains in second place and is the only publisher currently capable of challenging EA. A strong performance on games for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch was again a key driver of growth. Third placed Glu Mobile again reported a decline in revenues. Though, as in Q2, it did report sales above its expectations achieving $19.6m revenues for the quarter ($0.6m above its own forecast).
Games based on original intellectual property (IP) made up the majority of new games releases from major mobile publishers for the first time in Q3 2009, another effect of Apple's impact on the mobile games market. Historically, games based on IP from console games, TV programmes and films have tended to dominate major publishers' release slates as they tried to meet network operators' demands for well known brands.
Highlights: - EA Mobile remained the world's number one mobile games publisher, with record Q3 revenues of $51m, up 8.5 per cent on 2008.
- Gameloft reported more modest growth from mobile games sales, with revenues of $40.9m (up 5.6 per cent year-on-year).
- Glu Mobile remains in decline, with revenues down 18 per cent year-on-year.
- Games based on original intellectual property (IP) made up the majority of major publishers' releases for the first time in Q3 2009.
In this report: - Global overview
- Regional analysis
- Major publishers' quarterly results
- Mobile games release trends
List of tables and charts:
Top three publishers' quarterly revenues
Top three publishers' quarterly revenues and year-on-year growth
Gameloft's revenues by region
Glu Mobile's revenues by region
Q3 2009 releases: new titles
Q3 2009 releases: original IP
Q3 2009: releases by platform
Q3 2009: Blackberry releases
Q3 2009: casual titles
Q4 08 – Q3 09: casual titles
Q3 08 – Q3 09: Namco new releases
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format: PDF
published:
24-Nov-09
pages: 11
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tables & charts: 11
Author/s
Jack Kent
Territories covered
Western Europe
Austria,
Belgium,
Denmark,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Ireland,
Italy,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Portugal,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
UK,
Central and Eastern Europe
Czech Republic,
Hungary,
Poland,
Russia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
North America
Canada,
USA,
South and Central America
Argentina,
Brazil,
Mexico,
Africa and Middle East
Turkey,
Asia-Pacific
China,
India,
Japan,
South Korea,
Companies mentioned
Apple
Capcom
Digital Chocolate
Disney-Disney Mobile
Electronic Arts- -EAMobile
Gameloft
Glu Mobile
Google
Hands-On Mobile
Microsoft
Namco
Nokia
Research in Motion
THQ - THQ Wireless
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