The market for mobile phone games

The market for mobile phone games or mobile Java games is a buoyant one. According to experts, the market for mobile games is expected to be worth more than $8 billion by 2009. The development of innovative handsets as well as better marketing by network operators would contribute to a large extent to this spurt in mobile gaming . The traditional gaming companies, which were hitherto into console gaming, are also expected to invest their resources in the design, development and delivery of Java games specially designed for mobile phones.
According to market research in this area, the maximum amount of revenue is expected to be generated from downloadable mobile phone games . Other forms of mobile games such as network games and messaging games would also be patronized by some sections of mobile users from different parts of the world.