Android Market gaming revenue increases 50% in February

Mobile gaming sales have proven to be on the rise and Google's Android Market is beginning to reap some of the benefits. Although still light years behind the iPhone's dominating 99.4% market share app store, Android Market's revenue growth of 50% from January to February could signal a positive trend for the service. With 1200 new games added to the Android Market in 2010 alone, it appears that developers are finally taking advantage of the only open and free mobile platform. The hope, of course, is that the ease and speed of game development for Android will encourage increased game output to the market, enticing mobile gamers to make the switch to mobile phones using the Android platform. It will take some time to get the installed base of Android phones to the critical point where game development and sales can really take off, but as Android's smartphone market share increases and devs become more frustrated with Apple's app approval process and turn instead to game development for Android Market, more consumers can be expected to jump ship to Android phones and Android Market mobile gaming.