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Gameloft Significantly Cuts Android Development

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By Tom Ivan

November 22, 2009

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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.

ArronC07's picture
On November 23rd ArronC07 said:

I've just got an HTC Hero running Android and it's awesome- it knocks the socks off the iPhone. It is however an open source platform and the whole philosophy is based around free/low cost apps.

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On November 23rd Abaculus said:

I love my Hero too, and it's a shame Android is being dismissed as a games platform like this before it's had a chance to get anywhere near iPhone's installed base to compete on a level field. That said, I found that after an initial flurry of downloading mobile games the appeal has waned and I've reverted to the DS or a decent paperback to while away the commute. The phone's being used for, well... phoning people. And email.

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On November 24th ShamanNY said:

Is this in the UK? because here in the states we just started hearing about Android very recently (sure we had the T-mobil android phone for a while) Now HTC and Motorola are building some real buzz around android, and with ATT Iphone exclusivity in place atleast until June 2010 there is a strong push for an iphone rival by the other service companies...