Cell Phone Games - Market or Mirage?

Posted by Zonk on Monday February 13, 2006 @10:57AM from the big-market dept.

Rimbo writes "One popular view of the cellphone gaming industry is that it's the place where they exile people who couldn't cut it in the console and PC game industry. The other popular point of view is that with the huge volume of handsets everywhere, it's a market primed to explode. Today's Hit from the Wireless Pipe takes a look at some little-noticed details of the buyout that suggest that this is not the sign of the market maturing that many want it to be." Relatedly, that buyout was finally approved by the Jamdat Shareholders this past weekend.

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Um...They're cell phones. by Pantero+Blanco · 2006-02-13 11:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

While games on cell phones are alright as timewasters, I don't see any way that they're superior to the games kids write on their TI-83s when they get bored in high school. Anyone who wanted a really good portable game would probably buy a handheld device made specifically for that. Why would anyone think that there would be a big market here? I'd expect some hobbyist developer communities, but people actually trying to make big money off of it?