Frost: Multiplayer Mobile Gaming Getting More Popular

The popularity of multiplayer mobile games, including solo-play high score, shadow play, turn-based, real-time and other models, is growing among US consumers, says a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The market researcher expects more than 155 million downloads of such games in 2013, but predicts that real-time multiplayer games will make up only a small portion of the total, according to a 3G.co.uk article on the study.

High-speed/low-latency networks and capable phones are key to the advancement of multiplayer games of all types, as is the expansion of online social networks to the mobile environment, the report finds.

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