10 iPhone Games Sell More than 250,000 Copies Each Month

[Maura]

Pocket Gamer has news of a report from analytics firm Distimo which finds that the App Store has many, many more top selling games than the Android Market. According to Distimo, there are ten smash-hit iPhone games that sell over 250,000 copies every 2 months, in contrast to the Android Market, which has a much smaller number of smash hit games when compared to Apple, with only 5 Android games selling more than 250,000 copies since the inception of the Android Market. Furthermore, the report reveals that nearly 80% of paid apps on the Android Market are downloaded less than 100 times, and just 1 in 1,000 are downloaded more than 50,000 times. 96 Android Market apps have racked up more than 5 million downloads, yet only 2 paid apps have passed 2 million downloads.

Distimo points out in the Android Market’s defence that the App Store has been around a year longer of course, and that Apple is much quicker at updating the App Store’s rankings.

Source: 10 iPhone games sell 250k every 2 months, Android has had just 5 over 250k in its lifetime | Android Market news | Pocket Gamer

 

[Gregoris]

thats a lot of money for the devs to make