Investment banker adds up the market caps of publicly-listed companies
The collective worth of publicly-listed mobile games companies is $8.3 billion, according to figures from investment banker Paul Heydon of Avista Partners.
Speaking at this week's Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Heydon said the total market cap of all games companies was $100-$105 billion.
That gives mobile a 7.9 per cent share of the overall - that's larger that the combined market cap of games retailers, which Heydon puts at $3.1 billion.
Heydon said that mobile may seem small, but will keep growing, and also eat into the larger shares taken by the Nintendo and non-Nintendo segments. The same goes for Payment Services, which will grow and benefit in line with the rise of online and mobile.
If anything, the mobile market cap figure is probably vastly short of the real market value, considering the standing of privately-owned indie developers in the space, particularly when it comes to iPhone.
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The $105 billion total market breaks down as follows:
Nintendo - $34,959m
Other PC/Console (w/out Nintendo) - $33,223m
Online - $23,457m
Mobile - $8,257m
Retail - $3,110m
Payment Services - $1,368m
Distribution/Accessories - $311m
Outsourcing - $255m
