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xg4bx · 08-07-2012, 04:43 PM

it's a huge market-

"According to a study last fall by Information Solutions Group, 42% of Internet users in the U.S. had played a social media game in the previous three months, up from 28% a year earlier. Social media game publisher Zynga Inc. said daily users grew to 54 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 13% from the same period in 2010.

"They are clearly the hottest or fastest growing sector of the video game market," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for Popcap, a software company and publisher of Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz. "It is a phenomenon of sorts. You have hundreds of millions of people playing these social games on a regular basis. There was no playing social games four or five years ago."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/soc...9#.UCF9oE1lSAk

08-07-2012, 04:43 PM	#7
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	it's a huge market- "According to a study last fall by Information Solutions Group, 42% of Internet users in the U.S. had played a social media game in the previous three months, up from 28% a year earlier. Social media game publisher Zynga Inc. said daily users grew to 54 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 13% from the same period in 2010. "They are clearly the hottest or fastest growing sector of the video game market," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for Popcap, a software company and publisher of Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz. "It is a phenomenon of sorts. You have hundreds of millions of people playing these social games on a regular basis. There was no playing social games four or five years ago." http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/soc...9#.UCF9oE1lSAk