Juniper Research sees tablet gaming revenues increasing from $491 million in 2011 to $3.1 billion by 2014. While tablet gaming is expected to be a third of overall mobile games revenues by 2016, mobile game revenue for feature phones is expected to drop by half over the next five years.
“Tablets are expensive devices, typically retailing for around $500 with none of the subsidies from operators that are seen on smartphones. Owners tend to have a higher disposable income than the general smartphone user base. Thus they often spend more on game downloads and on in-game items than other demographics,” explained Juniper report author Charlotte Miller “[The tablet] is the perfect device for playing mobile games – the screens are large enough for the user to see the action, no matter how big their hands are.”
Source: JuniperResearch.com
