Top BlackBerry games twice the price of iPhone equivalents
We've been crunching numbers from the App World and App Store's top 50 paid games.
The average price of a game on the BlackBerry App World's Top 50 paid games chart is $5.09, compared to the average price of $2.53 for an equivalent game on iPhone's App Store.
That's what ME has found from crunching today's charts on both stores - something that's possible now RIM has launched a browsable webstore for its App World.
The finding reflects the popularity of 99-cent games on the App Store, and also Research In Motion's decision not to allow games on its store to be sold for less than $2.99.
Indeed, 25 of the games on the BlackBerry store's top 50 are selling for $4.99. By contrast, 24 games on the iPhone top 50 chart cost $0.99. There are only two iPhone Top 50 games selling for $6.99 or more, compared to 13 on the BlackBerry chart:
Interestingly, EA Mobile has the most titles in the iPhone paid games top 50 - nine - while fierce rival Gameloft leads the BlackBerry chart with eight games.
In case you're wondering, we did try the same thing for Nokia's Ovi Store, but a direct comparison is hard, since we can only access the UK-pricing version. Our analysis of the App Store and App World stores is based on the US versions.
For what it's worth, though, the current selling price of a top 50 paid game on Ovi Store here in the UK is a hefty £5.73 ($9.45).
The most popular publisher may surprise you too: it's previously-unheralded firm ZingMagic, with a whopping 18 of the top 50 titles on Ovi Store. EA Mobile has only two of the top 50, while Gameloft has none.
All this analysis was conducted today, based on sorting the charts by most popular title.
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The average price of a game on the BlackBerry App World's Top 50 paid games chart is $5.09, compared to the average price of $2.53 for an equivalent game on iPhone's App Store.
That's what ME has found from crunching today's charts on both stores - something that's possible now RIM has launched a browsable webstore for its App World.
The finding reflects the popularity of 99-cent games on the App Store, and also Research In Motion's decision not to allow games on its store to be sold for less than $2.99.
Indeed, 25 of the games on the BlackBerry store's top 50 are selling for $4.99. By contrast, 24 games on the iPhone top 50 chart cost $0.99. There are only two iPhone Top 50 games selling for $6.99 or more, compared to 13 on the BlackBerry chart:
Interestingly, EA Mobile has the most titles in the iPhone paid games top 50 - nine - while fierce rival Gameloft leads the BlackBerry chart with eight games.
In case you're wondering, we did try the same thing for Nokia's Ovi Store, but a direct comparison is hard, since we can only access the UK-pricing version. Our analysis of the App Store and App World stores is based on the US versions.
For what it's worth, though, the current selling price of a top 50 paid game on Ovi Store here in the UK is a hefty £5.73 ($9.45).
The most popular publisher may surprise you too: it's previously-unheralded firm ZingMagic, with a whopping 18 of the top 50 titles on Ovi Store. EA Mobile has only two of the top 50, while Gameloft has none.
All this analysis was conducted today, based on sorting the charts by most popular title.
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