The Mobile Games Industry
Experts Panel - potential topics to investigate |
We hope, with your help, to identify the Hot Topics and Issues that are impacting the industry. Meanwhile, here are some of the ideas that we have had.......
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General views on the Industry |
- Your levels of confidence in the Mobile Content and Mobile Games Industries going forward
- Your views on, and committment to, the main Development Platforms/Operating Systems - Java/BREW/Symbian etc
- Your opinion on the different games genres and their growth potential
- Your views on the various methods of accessing games - sideloading, memory cards, downloading...?
- Your views on who you think is most interested in mobile games - by age, sex, region and type of game?
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What is driving the market
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What is inhibiting the market
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- The wider use of Advergaming
- The launch of more compelling games
- The adoption of more transparent Billing Systems
- The creation of Motion Sensing Games
- The creation of Location Based Games
- The creation of more 3D Games
- The creation of more Multiplayer Games
- The creation of more Bluetooth Games
- The increasing number of games on Apple's iPhone
- The increasing uptake of
3G & 3.5G technology
- The increasing use of Flash Memory in handsets
- The increasing use of Hard Drives in handsets
- Increased Processing Power in handsets
- Improved (games compatible) Form Factors in handsets
- An ever increasing installed base of games capable Mobile Phones
- The surge in D2C Portals
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- Handset Fragmentation
- Incompatible Platforms and Operating Systems
- Network Latency
- Porting and Localisation Costs
- Securing routes to market
- Rising Marcoms and Promotion Costs
- Network Latency
- Rising Development Costs
- Low Profit Margins
- Opaque Billings Systems
- Poor quality games
- The high price of games
- Shortage of development skills
- Piracy
- The global credit crunch
- Unsuitable Form Factors on handsets
- Poor consumer uptake of Mobile Games
- The absence of a ‘killer app'
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