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Mobile games on the increase at the Tokyo Game Show
Of the 758 new game titles on display at the Tokyo Game Show, 168 were for cellphone platforms, that’s more than twice as many as in the previous year.
Apple’s iPhone is already starting to eat into sales of handhelds and home consoles from the big players as game playing goes mobile. Many in the industry believe Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft need to explore radical changes to their businesses, including an emphasis on software rather than hardware and a better way for users to download games.
‘As a platform, the cellphone has the biggest potential, because everybody owns one,’ said Kazumi Kitaue, chief executive at Konami Digital Entertainment. A family with three children might buy just one Wii or PlayStation to share, but those children will probably have cellphones of their own and download and play games, Mr. Kitaue said.”
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