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Gameloft Significantly Cuts Android Development

Leading mobile publisher states that it's by no means alone in scaling back investment in games and applications for Google's platform.

Leading mobile publisher Gameloft has said that it is one of a number of companies scaling back investment in games and applications for Google's Android platform.

"We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like ... many others," Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said at an investor conference, reports Reuters.

“Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue," he added.

Formed in 1999 by the Guillemot family brothers, who are also the founders and owners of Ubisoft, Gameoft generated 13 per cent of revenue from iPhone titles during its last quarter, “selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android", according to Rochefort.