French game maker Gameloft ditches the Android platform
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.
The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android has won a lot of attention lately with new models from Motorola and Sony Ericsson, according to Reuters.
“We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others,” Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said at an investor conference. “It is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue.”
By contrast, iPhone games are generating 13 percent of Gameloft’s revenue in its most recent quarter. Rochefort said that Gameloft is selling 400 times more games on iPhone than Android.
French game maker Gameloft ditches the Android platform
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.
The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android has won a lot of attention lately with new models from Motorola and Sony Ericsson, according to Reuters.
“We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others,” Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said at an investor conference. “It is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue.”
By contrast, iPhone games are generating 13 percent of Gameloft’s revenue in its most recent quarter. Rochefort said that Gameloft is selling 400 times more games on iPhone than Android.
