Amazon lure, Boom Beach results on Google Play, mobile gaming market size in 2016 - top weekly mobile news



    Mobile gaming market: $ 28.9 billion in 2016


    Juniper Research has prepared a report with forecasts of the mobile market, squeeze the most interesting offers us venturebeat.com.

    According to the report, the mobile gaming market will grow to $ 28.9 billion in 2016, which is 38% more than the industry should bring this year ($ 20.9 billion). Thus, the giant market for mobile games is not going to slow down, and by 2019, the speakers promise growth to 39.6 billion USD. The main drivers of growth will be the countries of the Far East and China, reaching a total share of 57%.

    Large players in the mobile market, such as King and Supercell, are betting on attracting players to their products to maintain their income. This strategy is very wasteful, and Juniper suggests that there has been a general trend in the strategy, where the analysis of product indicators is at the forefront, which in turn allows you to raise LTV and thereby significantly increase ROI.

    Juniper also points out that tablet users spend more money on games, arguing that there are a lot of serious games on tablets that attract hardcore users from other platforms, but Juniper notes that this will not prevent a niche of mobile consoles from being near phones and tablets.
    The full report can be downloaded here .

    Amazon lures developers on its new phone


    We continue to monitor Amazon’s efforts to find its place in the sun in the mobile app market. Most recently, they announced the release of a new (for them, the first) Amazon Fire phone, and new details are already appearing in attracting developers to create applications for a new piece of hardware. Amazon has officially announced on its developer site the launch of an incentive program for those app publishers who adapt their products to Amazon Fire. Thus, Amazon repeats some of Apple’s moves, which has always encouraged developers using the latest solutions of both the devices themselves and the new versions of iOS - right up to the invitation to presentations.

    But back to the stock from Amazon. Program participants will have at their disposal 500,000 Coins, a currency that operates within the Amazon app ecosystem. In terms of real money, this is about $ 5,000, and each developer can receive such a bonus up to three times. Well, perhaps such buns will help to attract quite a cool interest among publishers to the platform. Now it has 240,000 applications. Note that, according to optimistic forecasts by Amazon, up to the end of the year, up to 3 million Fire will be shipped.


    Ignore Windows Phone? Ignore 10% of users


    And again about the “alternative” platforms. At the Pocket Gamer Connects conference, it was once again said that it is not good for a mobile developer to ignore the Windows Phone market. There are already 24 countries in the world where devices on this platform dominate the market with live iOS and Android. A list of these countries can be seen on the infographic .

    The piquancy of the whole situation is added by the fact that the representative of Fortumo payment aggregator this time announced the prospects of mobile Windows. It's no secret that such systems do not feel very well (read - in any way) in the official stores of Apple and Google, where the emphasis is on their own payment systems. It remains to wait for the awkward moment when Microsoft is hard to gash non-alternative own payments, leaving out of work all the voluntary assistants in evangelizing for Windows Phone.


    Boom Beach appeared on Android


    After the release of Clash of Clans and their resounding success, Supercell was in no hurry to port its hit to the Android platform. This led to the fact that the clones seized the initiative and managed to order the new earth. With the new Boom Beach game, the company does not intend to step on the same rake, and already 3 months after the world release on iOS, the game appeared on Google Play.

    Judging by the reviews and installs, the game is great. The reviews are excellent, the dynamics of the installations are increasing, and with it the game rises in grossing. As of June 23, the game entered the top 100 grossing in 34 countries and is actively growing in the rest. Even clogged with clones of Clash of Clans Google Play gladly met a new game.


    New Tamagotchi - black and white something


    July 12 promises us the release of the next creation from the gloomy genius Aliceffekt. Played Oquonie? Or maybe in Hiversaires? Most likely they saw some of this. By the way, a very good training, if you try to pronounce these names out loud. (The main thing is not to disturb them with something like r'leh, you never know). Now imagine how Tamagotchi in his performance might look ... Can't ?! Hint: it's black and white. And weird. In general, not a bad combination. And also Tamagotchi procedurally generated in Ledoliel (out loud!) Is a very interesting move.

    You can interact with your creature through three verbs - Say, Touch, Give (there is also Leave, but it is for the weak in spirit), to which the game will offer continuation words, emotions, objects. Tamagotchi will like something more, something less, and your task is to determine what exactly by the reaction of your pet. We don’t know if this game will be able to change your worldview or turn the genre upside down, but it’s interesting to see in any case.

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