This interview with Mike Juntao Yuen of Qualcomm provides an insightful look about the future of mobile games and what he thinks need to be improved in order to get more people to play mobile games.
I think if operators look at the retail and packaged goods business, some of the basic things they could do is just spend time improving the discovery, shopping, merchandising, and marketing of applications. Improving that in general is going to put the mobile gaming industry in that upward growth path again.
The underlying technology, from my standpoint, is really not an issue. It’s not about whether we have enough horsepower in the chipsets, or if the network is fast enough, or any of the other infrastructures built around that, it’s really the basic plumbing that needs to be addressed.
He has hit the nail right on the spot with that. I have a few mobile gamer friends and they are totally clueless on where to go to get quality mobile games and 1 of them is an IT project manager. If even techies have no clue on where to go for quality mobile games, guess where will the rest of the everyday gamers go?