Revenues from mobile gaming are predicted to top â‚Ź500 million in Western Europe this year with the UK contributing â‚Ź75 million to this total.
A study entitled
How to make money on Mobile Services identifies four different forms that mobile gaming is likely to take. These are classic/arcade style games, betting/lotto games, TV voting and interaction with game shows.
Strand Consult, which published the report, estimates that the Western European market will be worth â‚Ź4 billion in 2005 with the UK’s share set to rise to â‚Ź520 million.
The research follows the launch of Nokia’s N-Gage, a handheld games platform designed to compete with the Ninetendo Gameboy.
