Only 27% of game-enabled cell phone owners play games

Not surprisingly only 27% of game-enabled cell phone owners play games on their phone. The interface for playing such games as well as the fact that it kills the batteries are good enough reasons for me to not play video games on a cell phone, let alone the bad graphics and poor gameplay of most of the released games.

Only 27% of game-enabled cell phone owners play games by ZDNet’s ZDNet Research — Currently, about 27% of those who own phones capable of playing games use them for such, up from 20% in 2004. 60% of the players are between 13-17. The average mobile gaming session, according to NPD Group, is 11 minutes long, and the primary motivation for playing games on phones is “to kill time or […]

September 5th, 2005 Posted by David in News at 8:55 pm 2 Comments »
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2 Comments »

  1. yeah, I don’t play games on my cell. although the controls are decent, the screen size is terrible on the eyes.

    Comment by Brad — September 5, 2005 @ 9:46 pm

  2. Exactly, and that is not going to be fixed any time soon. Though I could see a Nintendo DS / PDA / Cell Phone doing pretty well.

    Comment by David — September 6, 2005 @ 8:09 am

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