Smartphones eat games handhelds and cameras for lunch


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Smartphones eat games handhelds and cameras for lunch

Serial category killer?

By Caleb Cox

As iPhones and other smartphone devices increase in popularity, their foothold in the mobile gaming market strengthens. This looks like bad news for traditional handheld options we generally associate Nintendo and Sony with.

Some suggest the iPhone could even have a negative impact to the point & shoot camera industry, as figures from Flickr show the iPhone 4 is on its way to becoming the world's most-used photography device. Could the Apple iPhone ruin consumer electronics as we know it?

Research from Flurry Analytics compared US mobile gaming figures from 2009 to 2010. The dominance of Nintendo's DS took quite a pounding, but there was huge increase in iOS and Android game popularity, which now represents over a third of the total market.

That's hardly surprising considering the increase rate of smartphone ownership, even less so perhaps when you consider the handheld console market is in transitional phase between major releases, or at least, it was so in 2010

Story & graphs .. http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/19/smartphones_effect_consumer_electronics/

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