The userbase just needs to be much much larger before that's going to take off significantly.
Right now-- you release a free app--- and 10s of thousands will download it within the first few days with glowing remarks. Put a paid app up--- and maybe 20 will download it in the first few days-- and 1/3 of them will return it within 24 hours. You'll also get a bunch of hatemail telling you you're morally wrong for charging money. When it takes >150 man hours to make a decently made game it's not really economically viable to focus significant amounts of time on the platform. Almost any team will look at the glowing red line at the bottom of their ROI on games released on Android right now--- and revert future projects to "hobby" status if not canceling completely. Until there are massively more people using Android, or a much much higher ratio of the population buy games-- game development for the platform will be slow. The reason the iPhone's market exploded with a lot of good games---- was due to a massive userbase of people that buy stuff. Money in a market attracts a lot of competition, effort and talented teams/companies. No money in a market attracts hobbyists. (nothing wrong with hobbyists!!) I believe the Android market will get there eventually--- it'll just take a bit more time. ~Evil Mushroom Lord Mushroom Wars: The Splatting On the android market now! http://www.evilmushroomempire.com/splat/screenshots.html On Mar 30, 7:39 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > ... looking at new releases on Cyrket over the last weekend, I can see > - over 100 new apps > - around 6 new games > > Does this worry anyone else? > > Can Android compete in a smartphone marketplace if the games are just > not there? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
