Developers Flee Wii, Embrace iPhone, Study Says
February 7th, 2010
A survey of 800 videogame developers showed that support for iphone games is growing, while dedication to the Wii is dropping off.
The Game Developer magazine study released Friday showed major growth in the mobile space, due partly to Apple’s iphone. 25 percent of all game developers said they were creating content for mobile phones — that’s nearly double last year’s number. Nearly 75 percent of mobile devs supported iphone, doubling the numbers who stood up to be counted as developers for the Nintendo DS and PSP.
Meanwhile, developer support for the Wii dropped. Only 30 percent of console developers claimed to be working on Wii games. Last year as many as 42 percent had Wii product in the works.
The State of Game Development survey polled over 800 game designers, readers of the magazine and the website Gamasutra, plus attendees of the Game Developers Conference. The complete results of the poll are available as a 100-page report from Game Developer Research.
More details from the survey will be published in the February 2010 issue of Game Developer.
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