{"id":5635,"date":"2010-03-23T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"iphone-overtakes-psp-in-revenue-growth-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5635-iphone-overtakes-psp-in-revenue-growth-in-2009","title":{"rendered":"iPhone overtakes PSP in revenue growth in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using publicly available sources, Flurry analytics has revealed that gaming revenue on the iPhone and iPod Touch may have surpassed Sony PSP revenue in the United States in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NPD Group &#8220;iPhone game sales using a combination of data made available by Apple and using ratios and calculations from an aggregated set of data [from Flurry&#8217;s own analytics data],&#8221; the group puts the iPhone&#8217;s game revenue at almost 400% growth in 2009 over 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Although Nintendo&rsquo;s DS was the obvious winner during the period Apple&rsquo;s iPhone and iPod Touch jumped by 19% in revenue compared to just 11% for the PSP.<\/p>\n<p>Although this might not be an indication that mobile crossover gaming is taking over, the data certainly indicates that Apple has a legitimate gaming platform on its hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple may have a legitimate gaming platform on its hands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}