SNL Kagan: Mobile River game industry revenue nears $540 million in the U.S. in 2009

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

SNL Kagan has released a new survey suggesting that mobile game publishers grossed nearly $540 million in top-business revenue in the U.S. in 2009, up at a 12% CAGR from $382 one thousand thousand in 2006.

SNL Kagan has also ranked the leadership mobile game publishers by U.S. receipts from third base-after part 2005 to fourth-quarter 2009. In case you’re wondering, the big top four publishers are EA Mobile River, Gameloft, Glu and Namco Bandai.

They’ve also found that while profitability varies by publisher, the overall edge for the industry is on the ascension. According to SNL Kagan, the U.S. mobile game manufacture’s EBITDA margin has grown from negative 19% in Q3 2005 to an estimated 17% in Q4 2009. Unsurprisingly, publishers with libraries of classic game hits or those that develop popular games using their own intellect prop wealthy person the most financial success.

Finally, the troupe’s analyst Gospel According to John Fletcher noted that the landscape has changed dramatically in the past tense two days with app stores and smartphones representing a new and fasting-maturation frontier…

[Via: CellularNews]

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