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iPhone: 6,000 Games

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By Rob Crossley

March 9, 2009

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Apple’s iPhone app store now has over 6,000 games for users to download and play.

The news comes from data conducted by mobile analytics group mobclix, which also reports that a total of 20,421 applications are available for the device.

The data means that games represent around a third of the total apps for the iPhone, a figure that would – in some ways – support Apple’s ongoing declaration that the device is a serious games platform.

Mobclix adds that three quarters of the games available for the iPhone require payment, while the remaining 1,516 titles are free of charge. The most crowded genre of game is puzzle, with 2147 games of that nature, while only around 200 racing titles are available on the system.

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On March 11th manhattan said:

While Microsoft is not looking, Apple has quietly slipped into the handheld gaming industry and ispoised to be a major player. Although, the iphone and ipod touch are not as accomplished a gaming device as the PSP and DS are, Apple has shrewdly focused on casual gaming and its incredible potential as a multi-million dollar market by and by opening up to developers ingenious ways of using the brilliant touchpad for games.