GDC Research: North American developer phone and tablet are the most popular

DC conducted a survey of the 2500 North American game developers to understand the industry's support for various platforms currently on the market. The following is a summary of the main trends:1 a large number of independent developers increase In fact, over 53% of respondents said they own "independent developers. Another 51% of which said they were in the past two years into the independent developers. 46% of respondents said they work in the development company of the scale of less than 10. Only 24% of the developers said before a game development project is carried out in collaboration with a publisher. Ongoing development projects, only 20% said they are and publishers.
2, mobile phones, Tablet PC and the PC is the leading development platformThe research zbs a1000 found that mobile phones and Tablet PC platform of choice for developers. 38% of respondents indicated that their previous games are issued in the phone or on the Tablet PC platform. 55% of developers said they are now developing a mobile phone or tablet PC games. 58% of developers said they intend to in the future for the mobile phone / tablet computer developed game. PC / Mac ranked second, with 34.6% of the developers of a game is released on PC / Mac, at present the entire 48% of the developers in the development of the PC / Mac game, 49% of developers have indicated that they plan to in the future development of PC / Mac game3 console platform development trend is stable, but the overall decline.
Between the three major console platforms, the research found that the Microsoft platform is the most popular, and 13.2% of the developers for the Microsoft platform to develop games, while about 14% of the development plan is developed for the Microsoft platform game. PS3 has 13% of the developers said they are 12.4% of developers said they are planning to develop games for the platform, developed for the PS3 gameNintendo WiiU, only 4.6% of the developers said its development game currently, 6.4% of the developers said that their next game will be developed to WiiU.
Dedicated handheld game support is extremely low Developer support for the PS Vita than before in cases of low improve slightly. Only 2% of the developers said they were on a game to Vita development, currently 4.2% of the developers to develop games for the Vita, 5% of developers said their next game intended for the Vita development. Developers in North America seem not optimistic about the prospects for the 3DS. Only 2% of the developers on a game developed for the 3DS. Only 2.8% of the developers said they plan to develop games to the 3DS in the future.
5, mobile phone, tablet, PC and Android platform is the most attracted the interest of novo 7 paladin developersDevelopers interested in the platform rankings, mobile phones and tablet computers are still far ahead of the other platforms, respectively 58% and 56% of the developers certainly. PC-based gaming platforms such as Valve's Steam Box has also attracted a large number of developers (45%) interest. Android-based home platform (OUYA, GameStick, etc.) also received 37% of the attention of developers.
Interesting, in terms of developer interest, Microsoft and Sony's next-generation consoles also received considerable attention (XBOX720 29%; PS4 27%). Nintendo's platform is still a little behind. Only 13% and 5% of the developers said the WiiU and 3DS interested.