More About the iPhone and Gaming

Yesterday we discussed findings from a report by Flurry, a mobile analytics firm, about mobile gaming platforms. As with so many other areas of mobile, the iPhone was a big winner. The iPhone (and iPod Touch) platform increased its market share in mobile gaming from 5% in 2008 to 19% in 2009. But the bigger picture is what the iPhone's impact has been in the overall gaming world (not just mobile/portable). Here are some of the key findings from the study:

• 71% of the game market came from console platforms
• 24% of gaming sales came from portable devices
• 5% of the total gaming sales came from the iPhone.