Vital Analytics has come out with an interesting report that suggests 120 million Urban Indians played games on their mobile Phones.
Totally, 41% of all Urban Mobile phone users played games on their mobile – In terms of time spent, 37% spent less than a hour and 30% spent between 1-2 hours playing games on their mobile phones
Frequency of playing games | Unique Users (000s) | Percentage |
Less than 1 hour in a week | 44,837 | 37% |
1 to 2 hours in a week | 36,270 | 30% |
3 to 5 hours in a week | 18,058 | 15% |
More than 5 hours in a week | 10,193 | 9% |
Sports games like Cricket, Soccer, bowling etc is the most popular genre of games played on mobile phones, by 40% of all mobile gamers.
Arcade/Puzzle games like Soduku come in a close second played by 37% of all mobile gamers.
Games Genre played by Indian Urban mobile phone users:
Its interesting that 4 out of 10 people spent significant time playing games. And with new state-of-the-art mobile phones getting launched, this number should significantly rise in coming years.
How about a mobile gaming startup? anybody :)
Comments
There are already lots of mobile VAS startups but hardly anybody are succeeding. May be the timing is not right.
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