Half of U.S. and U.K. mobile gamers polled by Information...
Half of U.S. and U.K. mobile gamers polled by Information Solutions Group for PopCap Games said they viewed mobile devices as their main home game platform, PopCap said Tuesday. PopCap, a division of Electronic Arts, estimates that there’s a 125-million…
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mobile gamer population in the U.K. and U.S. Tablet-only players who were polled said they prefer home play on mobile devices even more, at 57 percent. The top five places to play mobile games were at home on the couch (69 percent of U.K. and U.S. gamers surveyed), at home in bed (57 percent), as a passenger in a car or on a bus or train (63 percent), waiting for an appointment (55 percent) and while watching TV (41 percent), PopCap said. Those who played mobile games exclusively on tablets said they played more at home on the couch (78 percent) and while watching TV (52 percent) than other mobile gamers, it said. Those who said they played mobile games only on a smartphone were more likely to play in situations that required waiting, such as while at a restaurant, in line at a store or at an appointment, it said. Many respondents reported playing mobile games in offbeat places. Ten percent confessed to playing mobile games in at least one of these venues: a church or other place of worship, in a car while driving, or in a theater while watching a movie, it said. But it said 3.3 percent of U.S. respondents admitted to playing a mobile game in a church or other place of worship, compared with only 0.7 percent in the U.K. Eight percent said they had played mobile games while in class at school, while 9 percent had played at a sporting event, PopCap said. Nine percent of mobile gamers surveyed said they had been late or missed an appointment, class, ride or flight because they were in the middle of playing a mobile game, it said. The results of the study were based on 2,301 online surveys that were completed in the U.S. and U.K. April 25-May 1 by people who said they owned and used a mobile phone, PopCap said. Among the mobile phone owners, 1,004 were identified as mobile gamers -- those who played a game on their mobile phone in the past month, it said. Of the mobile device owners, 712 were also identified as smartphone owners, while 361 were identified as tablet owners, it said.