Gameloft says it, other game developers cutting back in Android support

[ktchong]

This happened awhile ago, but everyone else here seems to have missed (or just ignored) it:

Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans

Fri Nov 20, 200

BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.

Android has won attention in the mobile industry lately, with Motorola and Sony Ericsson choosing it for their new top models.

"We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like ... many others," Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said at an investor conference.

Rochefort said the company has cut back on investment mostly due to weaknesses of Android's application store.

"It is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue," Rochefort said.

Games for iPhone generated 13 percent of Gameloft's revenue in the last quarter. "We are selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android," Rochefort said. (Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Dan Lalor)

Article Link: Reuters: Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans

Already? That's not good.

 

[JediJesus]

I dont think we missed it. A day or two after it happened they came back and said they will be supporting android devices. If I find the link I'll post it.

Here you go. They might have changed their mind again but I see your article was dated in November so I don't think anything has changed.

http://phandroid.com/2009/11/24/gameloft-180-degree-walks-the-talk/

 

[lekky]

Yup, I believe they said that because they were annoyed everyone downloaded their android apps, then got hte refund because they were terrible.

Hopefully they will release some good games.

 

[thecrazing]

Yeah, kt, you really gotta stop bringing in these articles that are three months old. The increase of users the 2.0+ devices brought has changed a lot in and of itself, it's inaccurate.