Hey, Slackers! Game More, Sleep Less, Repeat

The next time you pry the Wii remote from those cold, sweaty hands, grab your trusty mobile phone and give it some gaming love.  You see, the mobile gaming space needs you.  Scratch that, they need your money. 

Just how these companies stick around while managing to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars is beyond me, and many continue to see their revenues eroding.  Of course, the mobile gaming industry faces competition from everywhere.  The Nintendo DS and Playstation PSP are much more obvious choices when it comes to portable game systems with larger screens and vast titles to choose from.

So who is actually playing games on their cell phones?  Admittedly, I couldn’t tell you when I fired up the Treo and just had to have the newest game title, but I could be in the minority here.  I will say that carrier offerings can be their own barrier to entry, forcing consumers through almost 15 clicks to go from perusing to purchasing.  That will have to change.  I’m not a huge fan of the premiums that carriers tack on to almost everything that they offer either.  No wonder people look for options to side-load their mobiles.  A quick Google search will reveal many alternatives to the carrier-purchased titles (often for half the price).

Moral:  Game more, sleep less, don’t buy the software from the carriers so you can buy more games so you can…well, you get the picture.

-wS.

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