Poker Leads the Way in Mobile Phone Gaming

Filed in archive Poker on April 3, 2006

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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