Multiplayer gaming service providers are preparing the ground for offering true connected gaming through collaborations with device vendors, platform providers, applications developers, and mobile operators. While leading mobile operators already offer real-time multiplayer gaming on their 3G networks, platform providers help applications developers create, offer, and manage multiplayer mobile gaming services. This allows mobile subscribers to choose from a wider array of services.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, An Insight into U.S. Mobile Multiplayer Gaming Markets, finds that downloads of all categories of mobile multiplayer games (solo play high score, shadow play, turn-based, and others) expects to exceed 155 million in 2013. However, real-time multiplayer games would be a small percentage of this number.
Multiplayer games also have a huge boost with the extension of popular online social networking communities into mobile. Nevertheless, gaming service providers should be aware that multiplayer mobile games cannot offer the same level of functionality as the console or PC or replace them. Moreover, gamers’ attention span shrinks while gaming on mobile phones.
Originally posted on June 11, 2008 @ 8:19 am