Posts Tagged ‘OS’

  • Mobile Device stats from my HTML5 Games

    Given the incredible number of new devices being released at the moment I was curious to see what people playing our HTML5 games were actually using.

    So I took the combined stats from 3 of our games over the past 3 months. That’s from 1st August 2012 to 31st October 2012. I discounted stats before this as I wanted a current snapshot of the state of the market. Here are the results. Update: These stats are pulled from Google Analytics, so are at the mercy of however Google handles device detection.

    Total Unique Plays: 1,146,132 (3 months)

    Device Breakdown

    As you can see it’s a battle between Android and iOS only. The percentage of people playing HTML5 games on BlackBerry devices is actually 0.17% and on Windows Phone it’s a paltry 0.095% (!)

    Having said this there are an increasing number of Windows 8 based phones entering the market right now, so it will be interesting to see how this statistic changes over the coming quarter. As for BlackBerry however that to me just looks like a lost cause.

    So let’s dive into the devices a bit deeper:

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