The mobile games industry had a shaky start – but the latest platforms are opening up the market and creating new opportunitiesIn 2006 the world’s largest games company, Electronic Arts, signed its biggest-ever deal and acquired the mobile games company Jamdat for $680m (then £395m).For mobile games companies it represented credibility in the face of ongoing derision from the traditional console and games industry. Small screens, limited processing power and clunky games meant mobile had suffered in comparison with the all-conquering consoles, whose hefty development budgets delivered some beautiful games.To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/21/mobile-games-industry
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