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Games played a major part in the increased revenue for both parties

Game apps for iOS pummeled Android game apps when it came to revenue for the fourth quarter, but Android is growing quickly.

According to App Annie's Index, iOS games earned 3.5 times the revenue of Android games in Q4 2012. The iOS App Store increased its overall revenue by 20 percent from Q3 to Q4 2012 while the Google Play store doubled its app revenue in the same time period. However, iOS still raked in more cash.

The top revenue makers for iOS (ordered from 1-10 on the top 10 list) included apps by Electronic Arts (EA), Supercell, Gameloft, GREE, Inc., HungHo Online Entertainment, Zynga, Kabam, NHN Corp., SQUARE ENIX and Rovio Entertainment.

For the Google Play store, game companies occupied nine out of the top 10 list for best revenue-making apps. NHN Corp. held the No. 1 spot.

The top five countries contributing to iOS app revenue were the U.S., Japan, the UK, Australia and Canada. For the Google Play store, the top three were Japan, the U.S. and South Korea.

Source: Games Industry


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RE: Takin just pwned Reclaimer
By retrospooty on 1/31/2013 5:27:30 PM , Rating: 2
What of it? ounds like a winner to me. Make money of your product and make money of your competitor.

AS I mentioned before, its only a matter of time with Android outselling IOS before it achieves parity.

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-...

Even beyond that, who cares. Its about what you get... Not what Google or Apple gets.


By TakinYourPoints on 2/2/2013 5:45:33 AM , Rating: 2
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What of it? ounds like a winner to me. Make money of your product and make money of your competitor.


The point again is about the number of high end devices vs low end devices. The growth of high end Android devices needs to be much much faster than it currently is before we can even talk about the platform "catching up".

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Even beyond that, who cares. Its about what you get... Not what Google or Apple gets.


I agree. iOS gets much better third party support due to it selling so many capable devices. Same reason I game on Windows, great game developer support. Of course I care.


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