More than two decades, Sony PSP and Nintendo portable gaming industry master. However, since the presence of mobile phones based on Android and IOS, portable gaming fans even more abandoned. Analysts Flurry, Peter Farago explains the two embedded operating systems in the latest phones that could potentially undermine the revenue of two firms is a portable game.
"The trend shows the market share of Android and IOS has tripled compared to 2009, from 20 percent to about 60 percent," said Farago.
Based on research reports Flurry, Nintendo of income in 2009 was still reaching 70 percent share of the portable gaming market. Then, beginning to drop to 57 percent in 2010 and estimates this year would only reach 36 percent of the total market share game.
Likewise with Sony PSP income that still won 11 percent of the market in 2009, then dropped to 9 percent in 2010 and is predicted to only be 6 percent in 2011. Interestingly, gaming revenues from IOS and Android began creeping up from 19 percent in 2009, 34 percent in 2010 and is predicted to soar to 58 percent in 2011.
"If the IOS and Android combined income from 2009 to 2011 about 500 million U.S. dollars, 800 million U.S. dollars, and 1.9 billion U.S. dollars," he added.
Revenues jumped directly it was not without cause. The reason, to get the game on the Android Market, users can download for free or only pay less than $ 1 per game. As for buy gaming devices from Sony and Nintendo, the user must spend up to 200 U.S. dollars, not to mention the game pieces are sold up to 40 dollars per game.
Nintendo and Sony PSP market to compete with phones based on Android and IOS are quite heavy. Especially since the Japanese earthquake, production tumbled Nintendo Wii. Now, Nintendo is not only competing with Sony to maintain its market share, but also must compete with other products such as games that are already in operation Android and Apple.
"During the 2011 Nintendo experiencing financial difficulties and had to sell hardware and trim the distribution of content. It seems that Nintendo's fate was similar to Nokia Symbian buried himself with his first," he explained.
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