Mobile poker is dominating first place in gaming slots for current US cellphones according to the latest research.
The report showed that 20% of the top slots were taken by poker games for the major networks. Furthermore, in february and march of this year, the top 4 networks in the US had at least 2 poker titles on their bestseller lists
While card and casino games like poker may be one of the most popular, when it comes to generating revenue the card/casino genre represented 17 percent of revenue share in the U.S. in January, according to Telephia. The Puzzle/Strategy genre brought in more money overall with 29 percent of revenue share. Part of this was a direct result of the average price paid, which was $4.69 for Puzzle/Strategy and only $3.85 for Card/Casino. Of course, games like Tetris remain to this day extremely popular, so these findings aren't that surprising.
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