iPhone clocks up 6000 games on the App Store
And paid games are more popular than free ones
Mobclix is reporting that a whopping 20,421 applications are now available for the iPhone and iPod touch through the App Store, though these figures were probably out of date by the time they’d finished typing up the report.
Still, what’s most interesting is the way those 20,000 apps are divided up between the iPhone’s categories. More than 6000 of them are games, making this the most prevalent App Store group.
But as we were discussing just last week on PocketGamer.Biz (although the exact figures differ a little - most likely due to regional difference in the App Store and the constant stream of new additions) the lowest pricing tier of 59p has proven the most popular - even beating free games.
And there’s still an admirable 700 full price games on the Store, which bodes quite well for the premium pricing range we heard so much about.
Puzzle titles are the most popular style of iPhone game (no surprise there) with racing games bringing up the rear. This does feel a little unexpected, as we’ve reviewed quite a lot of them. The higher production values are probably what makes this category at once so memorable and yet so sparse.
Interestingly enough, the ‘books’ category is very high up in the list, suggesting the iPhone and iPod touch are becoming the ebook reader of choice.
Indeed, even Amazon has released a free alternative to its Kindle device over in the US, in the shape of a Kindle iPhone application. Odd that it’d compete with itself so directly, but also very suggestive of the iPhone’s strength as a reading device.
We’d like to see the ‘simulation’ and ‘adventure’ categories pick up a bit on the App Store, if this report is any kind of inspiration to the massive iPhone developer community. Let us know what you’d like to see right here in the comments section.
