When it comes to iPhone gaming, everybody thinks that its 99 cents or die. This sounds reasonable at first glance – but is it really true?
PocketGamer has taken a snapshot of the top 100, and has performed various kinds of analysis on them – their verdict is as follows:
Crunching all this data is great fun, and throws up some useful lessons. Of course, to make it really useful, you’d want to factor in actual sales figures – for example, by what factor is a $9.99 game in the 20s or 30s out-earning a $0.99 game in the Top 10, if indeed it is?
Apple doesn’t publish figures, of course, and it strongly dissuades (to say the least) publishers from being too open about how sales relate to chart positions.
Hit this link for the full scoop:
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/App+Store/feature.asp?c=14291
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